Abstract

CORADINI, Odaci Luiz. Titulação Escolar: Classificações Ocupacionais e Importação Cultural. Propuesta educativa (Online) [online]. 2013, n.40, pp.32-47. ISSN 1995-7785.

This article presents the results of a study regarding the processes of adaptation of statistical classification schemes in Brazil. The major aspects first concern the relationship between social classification schemes and official statistics. Second, the problems related to the expansion of international statistical classification schemes and their effects on developing societies such as Brazil are discussed. Third, specific problems regarding the relationships between sociology and the formulation and use of statistical classification schemes are analyzed. In general, this paper hypothesizes that, aside from the major weaknesses of sociology compared with other disciplines (e.g., economics and statistics) and the instrumental nature regarding governmental policies of data collection and use, the major problem in these relationships arise from the unidimensionality of the schemes used to define and classify. This unidimensional nature of the statistical classification schemes tends to increase with the growing adoption of codes originated in the ILO (International Labor Organization). Thus, although statistical classification schemes, especially those related to occupations, tend to assert themselves in an increasingly unidimensional way, the problems related to multidimensionality in analyses of social structures are central to the majority of sociological theories.

Keywords : Statistical and social classifications; Statistical classifications and social sciences; Cultural import; Social stratification; Social position and occupations.

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