COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY: AN ETHNOSOCIOLOGICAL STUDY ON EDUCATIONAL TRAJECTORIES

Abstract

This article analyzes the construction of the professional identity of a group of graduate students, based on excerpts from their own biographies. These accounts integrated a sociological study aimed at identifying the social objects that permeated the participants' educational background. For the analysis, a methodology based on social trajectories was used, characterizing an ethnosociological investigation that demarcated the main links between subject, space, and time in the construction of a collective memory and a common sense in the educational field. Finally, the life stories were linked to the contributions of authors who discuss the dimensions of collective and individual memory.