Redes sociais via estrutura social cognitiva em adolescentes de uma turma do ensino médio

Abstract

Cognitive social structure maps social relationships perceived by the actors. This study characterizes network pattern of a high school classroom and verifies relationship perception and accuracy in this environment. To this end, two interconnected studies were carried out: 1) A review based on cognitive social structure analysis that aimed to investigate and systematize literature regarding the design of Cognitive Social Structure in social network analysis in a school environment to identify gaps, contributions, limitations, and improvement of this technique. 2) Descriptive and exploratory study to characterize differential positioning of adolescents in the social network topology, according to cognitive social structure, in terms of network patterns (greater or lesser density). The results of the first study indicate strategies that measure individual accuracy and group perceptions of the relationships established in each social network. Based on these data, study two characterized the differential positioning of adolescents in the social network topology and found that the subjects with greater precision in identifying real relationships are subjects who perceive the group less densely, and with clear separations between subgroups. Our results differ from little literature in the area regarding greater precision in subjects with less centrality of degree and intermediation.