Os sentidos do trabalho: as representações sociais em uma rádio comunitária

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the meaning of the work done within a community radio station in Manaus / AM, the radio "Voice of the Communities" for being the first community radio legally recognized in Brazil. The study was conducted through interviews, archival research and participant observation with the intention of understanding the reality experienced by the participants of the radio toward an understanding of the psychosocial aspects that relate to the social representation of the radio and permeate the relationship between paid and unpaid work in capitalist world. Therefore, the socioeconomic survey and how the participants establish their relations in the context of that community radio, was made necessary. It was also necessary to seek the understanding of the motivational factors that allow unpaid work in a public space. The community radio station run by voluntary participation of its members and is linked to the Community Movement for Citizenship (MOCOCA), non-governmental organization created at the instigation of the Catholic Church. As a "private apparatus of hegemony," ie, producing institution of culture and ideologies that are part of social construction. Thus, as a radio project of civil society is represented socially as a result of winning the struggle for democratization of communication and maintenance of alternative spaces. But even as a conquest, the survey data revealed that there are dilemmas that characterize the functioning of the radio, mainly due to the rotation of its participants. They also revealed that activities in the context of radio are representative of political actions meant the condition of "appearance" in the social sphere. Although the meanings of work in community radio are associated with positive representational content, we find that radio remains little known by the residents of their area. But on the other hand, the social place ever won by radio represented through its programs and consequently, participants reinforced the foundations of the existence of community radio stations, these being: a guide to political action, social solidarity and dissemination of culture