Representações sociais sobre o trabalho : um estudo da qualidade de vida no trabalho do policial militar em Aracaju/SE

Abstract

This research aimed to analyze the social representations, socially shared and developed, about the work and the profession of military police, and investigate the relationship of these representations with the quality of life in the work of police in Aracaju/Se. The Social representations, in the case of the police, tend in different contexts to relate them to risk, to confront crime and the approximation with socially undesirable aspects such as crime, corruption, violence, health risks and death. When you consider the police as a profession, it stands out as a specialization in socio-technical division of labor. The work activity of the military police is expressed by the production of use value and exchange value in society, that is, the use refers to public security service offered to society and the Exchange refers to the price paid by it’s employer, the State, by its service. In this way it’s understood that the military police officer is a worker that can be included in the class-who-lives-of-work. The empirical research had the participation of 274 military police, distributed in units of ostensive policing expert: Special Motor-Tactical Grouping GETAM, Shock police battalion-BPChoq, Police Patrol radio Company-CPRp and the headquarters of the General commands –QCG. The representations built by the police reveal the importance of the work on social dynamics of these agents, constituted by the possibility of guarantee performances of the individual aspects (survival, social support, achievements) and social aspects of work (social utility of the profession, career development). On the other hand, emphasize the little support that the Military Institution offers to meet the demands of the job. The analysis of representations about the work made it possible to identify the relations established between workers (military police) and ways of structuring their activity, as well as, working conditions and the impacts in situations of violence, health and work.