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Descripción
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Colaborador
Rubén Cohen, Néstor
Patricia González, Anahí
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
Siglos XIX y XX
Idioma
spa
Extent
170 p.
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Cobertura
ARG
Siglo XIX
Siglo XX
Abstract
The general objective of the thesis presented below is to describe the way in which the notions about national identity and the figure of the external migrant present in the political and literary discourses of the late 19th and early 20th centuries are re-signified, as historical and ideological traces, in the social representations that teachers and directors of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires currently construct about national identity, interculturality, and the figure of the foreign migrant who arrived in Argentina since the second half of the 20th century.
With the intention of avoiding a mechanical and deterministic analysis, the hypothesis that guides the investigation refers to the fact that these traces collaborate in the constitution of social representations that prefer to crystallize in a lasting way in the institutions, and in the agents that integrate them, therefore who participate in the construction of a certain perspective on recent migrations (those arriving in Argentina since the second half of the 20th century) and on ethnic and national diversity in general.
By political and literary discourses, we refer to the production of the representatives of the political and cultural elite of Argentina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that make up one of the study universes of the thesis. The teachers and directors belonging to primary and secondary educational institutions of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area constitute the second universe of study.
The strategy carried out in the research combines a series of qualitative techniques such as text analysis, in-depth interviews and focus groups. In order to reconstruct the aforementioned speeches, a corpus of political and literary texts made up of the works En la sangre by Eugenio Cambaceres, representative of naturalism in literature; La restauración nacionalista, by Ricardo Rojas, located within cultural nationalism; Las multitudes argentinas by José María Ramos Mejía and Sociología Argentina by José Ingenieros, both exponents of Argentine positivism. Despite the difference in their institutional and disciplinary affiliations and assignments, all of them were part of intellectually and politically influential sectors of the national scene at the time.
The source from which the social representations of members of the educational institution are reconstructed are materials that emerged from focus groups and in-depth interviews with teachers and directors of primary and secondary schools, public and private, of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.
The entire material is analyzed following some of the guidelines proposed by the Grounded Theory of Corbin y Strauss with regard to open, axial and selective coding operations, a procedure that allows a comprehensive, transversal and simultaneous analysis to be carried out by constructing categories with great theoretical density.
The thesis is organized into eleven chapters. After the introduction, the methodological design is described, providing a justification for the data construction techniques, as well as explaining the route taken throughout the coding process to arrive at the central categories of analysis
The third chapter is dedicated to reconstructing the background of the thesis, while the fourth to defining the concept of social representation, central to the construction of the research problem. Next, the fifth chapter is dedicated to restoring the vicissitudes implied by the definition of national identity and the elements that converge in its articulation, focusing on its relational character and on the place of the other in its conformation. The sixth chapter is dedicated to describing the way in which the notion of national identity can be found in Argentina, and what place was assigned to migration and ethnic diversity in the argentine version of a "melting pot" constitutive of the hegemonic narrative about the nation.
The seventh chapter provides some sociohistorical coordinates to locate the authors of the corpus of texts, while the next three chapters expose the central categories of analysis that emerged from the coding process. In the first place, those that refer to national identity, its elements, and the way in which it is configured oscillating between the ideas of essence and objective. Next, categories are introduced that account for how the external migrant is characterized both in political and literary discourses and in the social representations of teachers and managers, starting from two central categories: the migrant alien and the migrant as an instrument. Finally, some central categories are proposed to think about how, in the analysis of the empirical material, the presence of the foreign migrant in the national identity is conceived, emphasizing the idea of Argentina as the bearer of a threatened national treasure, and the need to privilege the native to defend the integrity of the national identity.
Finally, some conclusions are introduced around the categories constructed throughout the analysis, linking them to the objectives of the thesis, to conclude with some questions for the future that would allow to broaden the journey.
With the intention of avoiding a mechanical and deterministic analysis, the hypothesis that guides the investigation refers to the fact that these traces collaborate in the constitution of social representations that prefer to crystallize in a lasting way in the institutions, and in the agents that integrate them, therefore who participate in the construction of a certain perspective on recent migrations (those arriving in Argentina since the second half of the 20th century) and on ethnic and national diversity in general.
By political and literary discourses, we refer to the production of the representatives of the political and cultural elite of Argentina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that make up one of the study universes of the thesis. The teachers and directors belonging to primary and secondary educational institutions of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area constitute the second universe of study.
The strategy carried out in the research combines a series of qualitative techniques such as text analysis, in-depth interviews and focus groups. In order to reconstruct the aforementioned speeches, a corpus of political and literary texts made up of the works En la sangre by Eugenio Cambaceres, representative of naturalism in literature; La restauración nacionalista, by Ricardo Rojas, located within cultural nationalism; Las multitudes argentinas by José María Ramos Mejía and Sociología Argentina by José Ingenieros, both exponents of Argentine positivism. Despite the difference in their institutional and disciplinary affiliations and assignments, all of them were part of intellectually and politically influential sectors of the national scene at the time.
The source from which the social representations of members of the educational institution are reconstructed are materials that emerged from focus groups and in-depth interviews with teachers and directors of primary and secondary schools, public and private, of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.
The entire material is analyzed following some of the guidelines proposed by the Grounded Theory of Corbin y Strauss with regard to open, axial and selective coding operations, a procedure that allows a comprehensive, transversal and simultaneous analysis to be carried out by constructing categories with great theoretical density.
The thesis is organized into eleven chapters. After the introduction, the methodological design is described, providing a justification for the data construction techniques, as well as explaining the route taken throughout the coding process to arrive at the central categories of analysis
The third chapter is dedicated to reconstructing the background of the thesis, while the fourth to defining the concept of social representation, central to the construction of the research problem. Next, the fifth chapter is dedicated to restoring the vicissitudes implied by the definition of national identity and the elements that converge in its articulation, focusing on its relational character and on the place of the other in its conformation. The sixth chapter is dedicated to describing the way in which the notion of national identity can be found in Argentina, and what place was assigned to migration and ethnic diversity in the argentine version of a "melting pot" constitutive of the hegemonic narrative about the nation.
The seventh chapter provides some sociohistorical coordinates to locate the authors of the corpus of texts, while the next three chapters expose the central categories of analysis that emerged from the coding process. In the first place, those that refer to national identity, its elements, and the way in which it is configured oscillating between the ideas of essence and objective. Next, categories are introduced that account for how the external migrant is characterized both in political and literary discourses and in the social representations of teachers and managers, starting from two central categories: the migrant alien and the migrant as an instrument. Finally, some central categories are proposed to think about how, in the analysis of the empirical material, the presence of the foreign migrant in the national identity is conceived, emphasizing the idea of Argentina as the bearer of a threatened national treasure, and the need to privilege the native to defend the integrity of the national identity.
Finally, some conclusions are introduced around the categories constructed throughout the analysis, linking them to the objectives of the thesis, to conclude with some questions for the future that would allow to broaden the journey.
Título obtenido
Magister de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Investigación en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales