Este trabalho examina os testes psicológicos, especialmente em sua relação com a educação, à luz da Teoria Crítica da Sociedade, tanto a partir de seus conceitos internos como das condições sociais e históricas que possibilitaram sua criação. Duas análises são fundamentais, ambas baseadas em Horkheimer e Adorno: primeiro, a da contradição histórica do movimento da razão ocidental, examinada a partir da Dialética do Esclarecimento; segundo, do emprego de métodos estatísticos e tipológicos em pesquisas nas ciências humanas. Como resultado da reflexão, concluiu-se que o conflito entre métodos quantitativos e qualitativos na psicologia mostra-se falso, pois servem para fins diferentes. A "naturalização", a tipologização e a indiferenciação do homem no mundo moderno não devem ser atribuídas aos testes psicológicos. Estes carregam em si a contradição do esclarecimento, de servir à humanidade e ao mesmo tempo à sua barbarização. Apresentam-se nesta dissertação, ainda, alguns autores críticos aos testes e, como ilustração, uma pesquisa bibliográfica sobre os testes em dois periódicos brasileiros educacionais e dois psicológicos. Verificou-se que os testes são empregados e criticados predominantemente aderidos a seus aspectos regressivos, sem que se pudesse pensar sua transcendência, apesar das mudanças observadas na psicometria atual. / This work examines psychological tests, especially in their relation with education, from the Critical Theory of Society standpoint, considering their internal concepts as well as historic conditions that allowed their creation. Two analysis are fundamentals, both based on Horkheimer and Adorno: first, the historical contradictions of the western ratio movement, examined from the Dialectic of the Enlightenment; second, the employment of statistical and typological methods on research. As a result, it was concluded that the conflict between quantitative and qualitative methods is shown equivocated since they serve different purposes. Man´s "naturalization", typologization and indiferenciation in the modern world cannot be attributed to psychological tests. These ones carry within themselves the contradiction of the enlightenment, of serving the humanity and at the same time its barbarization. It is still presented in this thesis some critical authors to the tests, and as illustration, a bibliographic research about tests obtained from two educational Brazilian journals and two psychological ones. It was verified that tests are employed and criticized mainly linked to their regressive aspects without possibilities of thinking their transcendence, despite changes observed in present psychometry.

This thesis seeks to trace domination theory back to the influential work done by Marx on commodity fetishism. Marx's work proves to be an original account of domination that explains how the dominated many accept the rule of the privileged few. The theory of commodity fetishism develops the idea that individuals come to adopt beliefs that bolster and reproduce the status quo of capitalism. For Marx, the way that individuals experience capitalism is different from the way that it actually works because, in fact, lived experience is actually false. Oppression, inequality and exploitation are thus hidden and the main source of conflict between the oppressed many and the privileged few is obscured. I seek to develop this insight of Marx's into a more comprehensive account of how dominating capitalism self maintains. Lukács' theory of reification explains how capitalism has become all-embracing because capitalism has developed its own type of rationality. This specific rationality shapes thought, which in turn, generates false beliefs that favour the continuation of the status quo. Horkheimer and Adorno argue that capitalism extends its influence by means of its deep involvement in modern culture. Today, culture has become an massive industry which inculcates the logic and principles of capitalism into individuals. For these theorists, capitalism has penetrated all areas of life; experience, knowledge and thought have become extensions of capitalism itself. Marx, Lukács, Horkheimer and Adorno give accounts of how false beliefs are put into practice. Hence the importance of the work of Bourdieu. Bourdieu's theory of distinction describes how the status quo in capitalism is maintained by the behaviour of individuals through their daily acts of consumption. I argue that the consumption of commodities reproduces the status quo in two ways: firstly, establishing an upper-class which takes the lead in patterns of consumption, and, secondly, by creating a middle class that follows its example. Finally, I relate Bourdieu's insights to the theories of Marx, Lukács, Horkheimer and Adorno and Bourdieu in order to arrive at a more inclusive account of how.

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Orientador: Fábio Akcelrud Durão / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T02:34:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Leite_PedrodeAraujo_M.pdf: 1325793 bytes, checksum: b99bf65c3d00a9facf46283d0d3ef8f5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Esta tese tenta descrever em linhas gerais o conceito de camp e sua trajetória dentro da indústria cultural desde meados do século XX até hoje e apontar as mudanças em seu papel simbólico em uma possível reação a essa mesma indústria a partir de um consumo ironicamente passivo com fins tanto aristocráticos quanto satíricos, e para tanto usa como objetos de estudo o filme "Pink Flamingos", dirigido por John Waters em 1972, e "Batman, the TV series", seriado de TV produzido pela rede americana FOX entre os anos de 1966 e 1968 / Abstract: The aim of the present work is to describe in general terms the concept of camp and its pathway inside cultural industry since the middle of the 20th century till nowadays. It also attempts to point out the main changes in the symbolic role played by this concept as a potential reaction to this same industry with regard to an ironically passive consuming serving both aristocratic and satirical purposes. For such intends, this investigation presents as study objects "Pink Flamingos", a movie directed by John Waters and released in 1972, and "Batman, the TV series", produced by the American broadcasting company FOX from 1966 to 1968 / Mestrado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

À travers l'examen de plusieurs critiques de la raison instrumentale, ce mémoire cherchera à déterminer s'il en est une qui soit le mieux à même de répondre de la complexité de la société occidentale moderne. Tout d'abord, la problématique sera introduite avec la lecture de Max Weber proposée par Jürgen Habermas. Il sera question chez Weber du phénomène de la rationalisation de la société. Partant de l'évidence que la sphère cognitive-instrumentale de la raison s'impose fortement dans la modernité, notamment par le complexe monétaire-bureaucratique, il s'agira d'expliquer, en revenant sur le processus historique du désenchantement du monde, comment la rationalité par rapport à une fin a-t-elle pu devenir aussi dominante dans nos institutions sociales? Ensuite, la critique de la réification de Max Horkheimer et Theodor W. Adorno sera abordée. Elle voudra montrer que la raison est totalitaire dans son essence; la raison a toujours produit de la domination et de la violence dans tous ses rapports: à la nature, à la société et à la subjectivité. Depuis le tout premier mot de l'homme, mana, jusqu'à l'Aufklärung en passant par le mythe, la raison est totalitaire. Enfin, Jürgen Habermas proposera un changement de paradigme qui, selon lui, est nécessaire pour dépasser le concept de raison réduit à son seul potentiel cognitif-instrumental. C'est dans le paradigme du langage que Habermas trouvera les ressources manquantes pour saisir le riche potentiel de la rationalité communicationnelle. Puis, grâce à ce nouveau paradigme, il pourra adéquatement conceptualiser les deux niveaux qui composent la société moderne: le système et le monde vécu. C'est seulement après avoir considéré l'importance du rôle que joue le système pour la reproduction matérielle et le monde vécu pour l'intercompréhension que Habermas abordera la colonisation systémique du monde vécu, une critique de la raison instrumentale nuancée et représentative de l'ambivalence qui caractérise la société moderne.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:12:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Retido.pdf: 19733 bytes, checksum: 6aad255badc436a06364517de2344ab6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-13 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / The present PhD dissertation discusses the relationship between the Critical Theory of Society and empirical social research as elaborated in the work of the Institute of Social Research of Frankfurt, particularly after 1931, during the period in which it was under the direction of Max Horkheimer. Thus, it investigates to what extent such a nexus considered part of this theory s immanent coherence can be found in the research carried out in the United States and published as The Authoritarian Personality. The first chapter is dedicated to the reconstruction of Horkheimer s notion of interdisciplinary materialism. The discussion is based on his inaugural lecture as the Institute director, and on his essays published during the 1930s. In the second chapter, the main empirical social research projects carried out by the Institute members, in Germany and in the United States, are presented. The third chapter is dedicated to Theodor W. Adorno, his critique of Sociology and his views about the accomplishment of empirical research in the scope of Critical Theory. The last chapter is dedicated to an analysis of The Authoritarian Personality, seeking connections between the theory and procedures and instruments, and also between theoretical elaborations on their results. / A presente tese discute a relação entre a Teoria Crítica da Sociedade e a pesquisa social empírica no Instituto de Pesquisas Sociais de Frankfurt, a partir de sua direção por Max Horkheimer, e investiga em que medida esse nexo considerado interno à teoria pode ser encontrado na pesquisa realizada nos Estados Unidos e publicada sob o título de The Authoritarian Personality. O primeiro capítulo é dedicado à reconstrução de ideia de materialismo interdisciplinar, proposto por Horkheimer, a partir de seu discurso inaugural como diretor do Instituto e de seus textos teóricos produzidos na década de 1930. No segundo capítulo, são apresentadas as principais pesquisas sociais empíricas realizadas pelos intelectuais do Instituto tanto na Alemanha, quanto no exílio americano. O terceiro capítulo é dedicado às críticas e reelaborações de Theodor W. Adorno a respeito de sua visão sobre a realização de pesquisas empíricas no âmbito da Teoria Crítica. O último capítulo é destinado às análises de The Authoritarian Personality, em busca de suas conexões com a teoria a partir tanto de seus procedimentos e instrumentos, quanto de suas elaborações teóricas a respeito de seus resultados.