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The opinions of individuals may be influenced by groups of different gender configurations. This influence was studied by asking college students to respond to a series of statements in pretest and post-test settings. Post-test settings included the use of manipulatively constructed confederate groups to influence the subjects' responses. A pretest was administered in an anonymous nonthreatening environment. Within a week, the subjects were post-tested in a setting with four "confederates" who had previously been instructed to unanimously voice opposite answers to the subjects' initial responses to pretest questions. The objective of this experiment was to determine the number of opinions that were changed when confronted with opposing views. Change of opinions between pretest and post-test were considered to be operational definitions of "conformity."

Orientador: Maria das Graças Conde Caldas / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T13:34:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Scalzilli_GuilhermedeCamargo_M.pdf: 16656727 bytes, checksum: 031dabfbff3afe8ce1b2c5a61e612e01 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: O tema central deste trabalho é o artigo de opinião como instrumento de militância política na mídia impressa brasileira. Inicialmente questionamos o paradigma ético da objetividade que alimenta os mecanismos legitimadores do jornalismo contemporâneo. Em seguida apresentamos as bases conceituais da Análise de Discurso de linha francesa, particularmente as desenvolvidas por Dominique Maingueneau, recorrendo a Patrick Charaudeau para a abordagem do Discurso Político e a Eliseo Verón para a do Contrato de Leitura. Depois passamos a um estudo do ativismo jornalístico, abordando questões como subjetividade, gênero, autoria, ideologia e dogmatismo. Então apresentamos a trajetória da revista Caros Amigos, lançada em 1997, de cunho predominantemente autoral e engajado na defesa de valores de esquerda. A revista é objeto de um Estudo de Caso interpretativo a respeito de artigos de opinião dedicados ao tema Política Brasileira, colhidos numa amostragem periódica de cinco exemplares, separados por intervalos quadrienais (1997, 2001, 2005, 2009 e 2013). A análise comprova que o repertório opinativo é propício para a investigação da identidade editorial do veículo de comunicação, mesmo quando os articulistas desfrutam de relativa liberdade de pauta e posicionamento. Os traços semânticos e as variações do ethos autoral pedagógico mostram que o articulismo da publicação era fundamental para o projeto pluralista e inovador que a marcava inicialmente, e que a restrição do seu espaço opinativo esteve ligada à adoção de um modelo mais sectário e ortodoxo de jornalismo militante. Além disso, o conjunto de colaboradores da revista serve como espécie de microcosmo da intelectualidade brasileira de esquerda, refletindo as suas oscilações ao longo dos governos federais que se sucederam desde o final do século passado / Abstract: The central theme of this work is the opinion article as political activism tool in the Brazilian media. We initially criticize the ethical paradigm of objectivity that endorses the legitimizing mechanisms of contemporary journalism. Next, we present the conceptual foundations of French Discourse Analysis, particularly those developed by Dominique Maingueneau, using Patrick Charaudeau to address the Political Discourse and Eliseo Verón for the "reading contract". Then we come to a study of journalistic activism, examining issues such as subjectivity, genres, authorship, ideology and dogmatism. We present the trajectory of Caros Amigos magazine, launched in 1997, predominantly authorial and engaged in the defense of left-wing values. The magazine is the subject of a interpretive Case Study on opinion articles devoted to Brazilian political subjects, and collected on a periodic sampling of five copies, separated by four-year intervals (1997, 2001, 2005, 2009 and 2013). The analysis shows that the opinionative repertoire is conducive to research the editorial identity of print media, even when the writers enjoy relative assignment and bias freedom. The semantic marks and the changes in pedagogical authorial ethos show that columnism was central to the pluralistic and innovative project that initially marked the magazine, and that the restriction of its opinionative space was linked to the adoption of a more sectarian and orthodox militant journalistic model. In addition, the magazine's columnist set serves as a kind of microcosm of Brazilian left-wing intellectual thinking, reflecting its fluctuations over the federal governments since the end of last century / Mestrado / Divulgação Científica e Cultural / Mestre em Divulgação Científica e Cultural