Abordagens teóricas de tecnologia social no Brasil

Abstract

Increasingly, Social Technologies (TS) have been considered strategic for social development in Brazil. Faced with the effort that has been made in the search for a conceptual and analytical framework of TS, this work sought to map the theoretical conceptions that exist in the Brazilian context. For this, bibliometrics was used as a methodological procedure in three different phases of analysis. In the first analysis, it was possible to conclude that there are two views on TS today. The two other analyses corroborated the conclusions of the first and showed that much of what is currently discussed relates to one or another view. The first view treats the TS as practices that provide social transformations in a community from the action of the community itself, and the second treats TS as artefacts that generate social change. These two visions permeated the concepts existing in the analysed works, and a TS can be understood as TS when it generates social transformations that are in keeping with the aspirations of the beneficiary community itself.