As denunciantes de violência conjugal e os serviços prestados por uma Deam segundo sua equipe de profissionais / Marital violence complainants and the services provided by a womenn's police station according its staff

Investigou-se a percepção dos funcionários de uma Deam sobre as mulheres denunciantes e as implicações dessa percepção na avaliação do serviço que realizam. A Análise Temática de Conteúdo realizada nas entrevistas individuais com os 14 profissionais da equipe gerou as categorias: "Pobre mulher" e "Casos raros" caracterizam denunciantes e denúncias mais e menos frequentes; "Por que elas falam?" e "Por que outras se calam?" agregam aspectos relevantes para denunciar a violência sofrida (medo, filhos, dependência afetivo-financeira, controle da violência). Desistências do processo e reincidências de violência geram frustração profissional, a qual parece ser favorecida, também, pelas percepções sobre as usuárias e sobre decisões de denúncia. Destaca-se a importância da formação adequada e do apoio psicossocial para essas equipes

It was investigated the perceptions of a Women's Police Station's team about women complainants and the implications of their perception in evaluating everyday jobs they perform. Thematic Content Analysis were applied on individual interviews with 14 professional staff and generated the categories: "Poor woman" and "Rare cases" that characterizes women complainants and the more and less frequent denounces; "Why do they talk?" and "Why do other women keep silent?" aggregate material about the decision of report or not violence (fear, children, emotional and financial dependence, violence control). Dropouts process and recurrence of violence implicate on professional frustration, which seems to be favored also by perceptions about the women and on denunciation decisions. We highlight the importance of proper training and psychosocial support for these staff

Representations and antinomies: rural and city social objects in a Brazilian peasant community.

The present work is part of a series of studies that primarily focus on social representations of rural and city objects in the process of constructing a social identity of the countryside. Using social representation theory, this study aimed to investigate the representational field linked to the rural and city objects for the members of a peasant community. A total of 200 members of a Brazilian rural community from four generational groups, of both sexes and aged between 7 and 81 years, participated in this study. We conducted individual interviews with semi-structured scripts. The data corpora, processed using EVOC software, consisted of free associations of the rural and city inductor terms. In constitutive terms, the results allow for the identification of antinomies between the objects discussed; in functional terms, they indicate that the process of constructing social identity is based on the symbolic field, which acts as a reference system for the preparation of the rural identity shared by the participants.

Mulheres ciganas: medo, relações intergrupais e confrontos identitários / Gypsy Women: Fear, intergroup relations and identity conflicts

Através da Teoria da Identidade Social procurou-se conhecer os estereótipos presentes no imaginário rural associados ao grupo cigano, bem como os sentimentos associados a esta etnia. Foram entrevistadas 10 mulheres não-ciganas, moradoras de uma comunidade rural brasileira. Realizou-se a organização dos dados através do software ALCESTE. A análise das informações nos permitiu identificar o sentimento de medo como importante orientador das práticas relacionadas aos ciganos, confirmando características presentes no imaginário social amplamente difundido acerca desta etnia. Estão presentes os clássicos estereótipos de ladrões, malfeitores e amaldiçoados. Discute-se a dinâmica identitária provocada pelo conflito entre a comunidade rural e os ciganos, enfatizando os processos que orientam o campo de identificação e diferenciação endo/exogrupal.

Through the Theory of Social Identity our objective was to know the stereotypes present in the rural imaginary related to the gypsy group, and the feelings associated with this ethnic group. Ten women, non-gypsies, residents of a rural Brazilian community, participated in this study. We analyzed the data through the ALCESTE software. The analysis of the information obtained has allowed us to identify the feeling of fear as the main mediator of practices related to the gypsies, confirming characteristics widely present in the social imaginary about this ethnic group. There are present the classic stereotypes of thieves, criminals and the cursed. It discusses the dynamics of identity provoked by the conflict between the rural community and the gypsies, emphasizing the processes that guide the field of identification and differentiation in/out-group.