Socioanálisis: metodología de investigación, análisis diagnóstico e intervención social

• Autores: Eduardo Andrés Vizer
• Localización: Redes.com : revista de estudios para el desarrollo social de la Comunicación, ISSN 1696-2079, Nº. 2, 2005, págs. 415-430
• Idioma: español
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  • In this paper, an innovative theoretical framework is presented, articulated with an empirical research methodology on diagnosis and intervention in communities and organizations.

    Social "objective" processes, conflicts and problems are tackled with a partipatory methodology, with the support of communication approaches and technics. Symbolic and discursive strategies and devices are deployed in communities and organizations (NGO's, associations, social movements, etc.). These are contextualized in several and different social and theoretical perspectives: as social movements, as an emergence of a Social Sector or civil society, as the "Third Sector", etc. Turner's tipology and cathegories on Voluntary Associations (2000) is also considered, as well as concepts and hypothesis related to theories of social capital and social cultivation.

    Our fundamental theoretical preoccupations are oriented towards a socioanthropological and a communicational approach. In our fieldwork we focus in socioorganizational, institutional and cultural dimensions; on the practices related to the daily activities as well as structural processes; the growth and reinforcement of power conflicts which arise from antagonism in social relations; the growing set of networks; the role of intra(and inter)institutional agencies (such as political, religious, and different sources and types of economic finacing). We develop observation of an institution or community, taking into account fundamental cathegories common to any social organization, in order to have a thoroughfull description of the structure and the processes by which a group constructs both social and symbolic practices as a form of "capital". A structural, social and human capital build in as structural threats of the organization in order to survive: instrumental practices; rules, values and routines both formal and informal; association styles; spatial and temporal organization of different environments. Cultural, symbolic and imaginary environments and dimensions in which men construct there lifeworlds (Husserl, Habermas). Viewing this process through the lens of "social capital" theory, we can say that a human organization builds objectively its structural, its social, its human and symbolic capitals by the permanent and daily reconstruction of resources and relations: with its physical environment, with the external sociopolitical macroenvironment (official agencies, the market, other organizations, etc.). From the perspective of subjectivity processes, we can think of a "cultivating inner environment" of social contention and emotional bonds (family, friends, networking, etc.); the cultural entourage of places, conversations, images, and rituals;

    the participation in social and participatory activities promoting tradition or social change, old or new social values and ideas. We also consider research and intervention in these processes, proposing a critical perspective of social capital theory. We intend to construct what we call a social cultivation approach (theory?), which intends to build up hypothesis about "inner" construction of social and symbolic community bonds between individuals, up to a point somewhat equivalent to the processes which correspond to human breeding of children, in a familiar environment that could be related to a human adult "cultivation" environment, considering mostly unconscious, emotional, symbolic and imaginary dependences to land, home, family, past and future identity assurances, etc.