SUBJECTIVITY: SOCIAL REPRESENTATION OF THE FAMILY

• Main Author: Lourdete Rejane Ferro Zago
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade de Brasília 2013-09-01
• Series: Revista Gestão & Saúde
• Subjects: Subjectivity; Social Representations
• Online Access: http://gestaoesaude.unb.br/index.php/gestaoesaude/article/view/653/pdf

The family, first family group of human beings, is the collective dimension of human existence and becomes responsible for the formation of the first social identity, as well as the constitution of subjectivity. Subjectivity is the inner world of each and every human being. This inner world is made up of emotions, feelings and thoughts. It is through this inner world that the individual relates to the social world, appointed by the outside world. This relationship follows the individual characteristics that mark the individual as unique, originated in shaping the individual, when they built the knowledge and beliefs. social representation as a form of knowledge, socially elaborated, shared with a practical purpose, contributing to the construction of a common reality to a social group. Is thus built up the social representation of the family.