WHAT MAKES A SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY? INTERVENTION IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BRAZILIAN

Abstract

Identified as a central theme since the first ABRAPSO's propositions, the intervention has been consolidated, in the Brazilian social psychology, as a field quite diverse as to its objectives, target audiences and procedures. Thus, the present research aimed to identify and analyze what was considered intervention in 260 full papers published in the proceedings of the Associação Brasileira de Psicologia Social (ABRAPSO) conducted in 2007, 2009 and 2011. Two procedures were used for the treatment of the data: Content Analysis and Lexical Analysis. The integrated discussion of the results allowed us a mapping of features that made possible to understand the set of reported activities such as type of work, standing out Research, with 117 papers; goals: Do, Analyze, Know and Introduce; the main target, standing out Workers/Professionals; spaces/places, being predominant the health institutions; and methodological aspects, standing out Group Techniques, as well as the construction of a general "concept " given the term intervention.

Keywords:
social psychology; intervention; abrapso; content analysis; lexical analysis