A escola como lugar: uma análise à luz da sociologia eliasiana

Abstract

School: place where formal education happens. Place: term derived from the concept of space, presenting meaning and representation. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the idea of school as a place from the perspective of sociology studied by Norbert Elias, directing this discussion to the researches about school institutions. This work also proposes to investigate the concept of place in an interdisciplinary perspective, joining this to the search about the idea of place from the book The established and the outsiders: sociology of power relations from a small community, by Elias and Scotson (2000), as well as other studies by the same author, which underpin the theoretical background that makes up the research like The Civilizing Process (1994), The Symbolic Theory (1994), The Society of Individuals (1994), Introduction to Sociology (2008) and the text The Civilization of Parents (2012). The methodology used in the study was the bibliographic reference research, in which articles and books were surveyed whose authors deal with the theme studied. Finally, it is understood that the school is a place demarcated by affections, feelings and memories of those individuals who endow it with meaning, characterizing it as a figuration, as observed by Elias (2008), taking it as an object and locus of research in the area of Education, so that school takes a social importance and the transformations that school institutions undergo, throughout the human trajectory, are understood and analyzed.