Uma análise comportamental da lei de proteção e promoção da igualdade material e neutralização dos efeitos da discriminação racial no ensino superior

• Main Author: Silva, Valdenice Portela
• Publication Date: 2025
• Format: Doctoral thesis
• Language: por
• Source: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Download full: https://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/21390
• topic: Psicologia; Behaviorismo; Discriminação racial; Avaliação de comportamento; Programas de ação afirmativa; Sistema de cotas; Brasil; Ensino superior; Behaviorismo radical; Análise de sistemas comportamentais; Práticas culturais; Política de ações afirmativas; Lei de cotas; Behavioral analysis; Behavior systems analysis; Law codes; Public policies; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

The thesis consists of an interpretation of the behavioral effects of Law 12,711/2012, which regulates admission to Brazilian federal universities. The method adopted to investigate this law was descriptive documentary analysis, through which the behavioral aspects of the legislative process were mapped and the contextual events preceding and succeeding enactment of the law were surveyed. To study the academic macrosystem, the analysis of behavioral systems was applied, which is equivalent to the overlapping of behavioral analysis with systems theory. The thesis is structured in four chapters. Chapter 1 is an integrative review of non-experimental studies of cultural practices, with the objective of investigating their historical process in the 1987-2020 period, using the databases of the CAPES portal and some of the main behavior analysis journals. Among the results, a growing trend of these studies stands out, especially those focused on Aggregate Products (APs), such as studies of laws. Chapter 2 is an essay that proposes an approximation between social psychology and radical behaviorism, through comparative analysis between Willem Doise's psychosocial levels of analysis and Burrhus Frederic Skinner's (1985) levels of selection by consequence. In this study, an approximation is observed between the third level of analysis suggested by Skinner (1985), the sociocultural, and that suggested by Doise (1985), the positional, which opens an investigation of social phenomena from an interdisciplinary perspective in the field of psychology. Chapter 3 presents a tutorial on how to analyze public policies through the analysis of behavioral systems and the systematic analysis of laws used in the studies of João Cláudio Todorov. The tutorial proposes the evaluation of public policies through the behavioral analysis of law codes based on the contextual events (antecedents and consequences) of the creation of the law evaluated using a historical approach. In the case of short law codes, the suggestion is to use a systemic perspective, with the mapping of contextual events, due to the difficulty of identifying Intertwined Behavioral Contingencies (IBCs) in law codes. Chapter 4 consists of the practical part of the thesis, in which an evaluation of the behavioral effects of Law 12.711/2012 is presented. This chapter is divided into two parts: the first is the descriptive documentary analysis of quota laws and the related normative instruments (antecedents and consequences), including the mapping of contextual events related to the legislative process. The second consists of the mapping of the behavioral processes of the macrosystem that encompasses the law in question, through the analysis of behavioral systems. Therefore, the thesis defends the overlapping of theories and methods of (behavioral) psychology in the evaluation of public policies from an interdisciplinary perspective, in a field of study predominated by political science and applied social sciences.