Entre ciência e religião o jogo das disposições e contextos nos retratos sociológicos de professores universitários

• Ano de defesa: 2020
• Autor(a) principal: Benício, Maylle Alves
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Sociologia; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Sociologia em escala individual; Bernard Lahire; Fé; Razão; Docentes universitários; Sociology on an individual scale; Faith; Reason; University teachers.; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/21292

Understanding the actions, behavior, beliefs and thoughts of social actors has been the great task of Sociology, since the classic period of the discipline until the contemporaneity. Some of these theories complement each other, others repel each other, and the axis, both of conciliation and of the division between them, still remains the same, that is, the dilemma between structure and agency. Sociology on an individual scale, proposed by Bernard Lahire, has gained ground in the theoretical/ methodological field of the social sciences because it presents a dispositionalist / contextualist model of action, the explanation of which is found in the game between the folded social and the unfolded social. Its approach is based on the socializing experiences that searches for the actors' embedded past to understand their actions, feelings, beliefs and thoughts, both in diachrony and in synchrony. The main instrument of this approach is the construction of sociological portraits or sociological biographies. It is based on the principle that women and men of nowadays, living in highly differentiated societies, carry the mark of plurality in their dispositional repertoires. Considering the theoretical and methodological tools of the sociology on an individual scale, proposed by Lahire, this research set out to analyze an issue that has long worried philosophers, theologians, politicians, scientists and common people. The relationship between science and religion. Among them, a hiatus has been seen rather than a continuity, considering that the science model, adopted from modernity, should move away from any belief or metaphysics that could not be verified for empirical reason. Hence, the status of science and the status of religion tend to appear as distinct and antagonistic things. The great question, however, is that both religion and science are human achievements, they are produced and reproduced by people, and these people, as sociology on individual scale demonstrates, are plural. So, nothing prevents a scientist from believing in God, and a religious from crediting science with legitimacy. Thus, the aim of this thesis was to investigate the dispositional repertoire of university teachers to understand how the scientific and religious domains embedded in the plural men and women who occupy the academic space are articulated, bringing contributions to the discussions on the strained relations between faith and reason in the contemporary world. The main corpus of the research was assembled with the sociological portraits (or sociological biographies) of three teachers that works on universities at the Paraíba state, from different areas of knowledge, following the selection criteria concerning the methodology applied. For the portraits, series of in-depth interviews were carried out with the teachers, in addition to informal meetings. Each teacher participated in three or four interview sessions, lasting approximately two and a half hours each, and later the material collected was transcribed in full by the researcher. As a result, it was observed that the separation between science and religion takes place especially at the discursive level, but in the realm of existence, of the personal daily lives, it is not disjunctive. Its conjunction element was found in the dispositional repertoire of the studied individuals. It was noticed how the contrasting dispositional tendencies, involving faith and reason, fit in very singularly in each individual, but they presented coincident points, such as: moments of reexamination of their own beliefs, religious dispositional reordering as a result of biographical ruptures and reports, in greater or lesser degree, of struggles against oneself.