Sociological analysis of discourse and discussion group: Practices in the Spanish tradition of qualitative research

Abstract

In the field of Brazilian research on administration, a growing profusion of discursive practices have been witnessed. The last fifteen years have seen the emergence of the Brazilian School of Sociological Discourse Analysis (SDA) and its principal collective practice—Discussion Group (GD). The Brazilian School of SDA has developed by adapting methods that originated in the Spanish tradition of qualitative social research. Driven by phenomenology, ethnology, and critical theory of society, SDA is searching for a model to represent and understand concrete text in its social and historical context by reconstructing the conscious and unconscious interests of the actors involved in the discourse. In Spain, SDA and GD are synonymous with the history of qualitative research, consisting essentially of three major generations of authors, with whose main representatives I had the opportunity to work during my post-doctoral studies. Here I present them with the following sequence: the first generation created a way of thinking; the second systematized the practices; and the third innovated by expanding SDA to images.