O referencial teórico-metodológico de Geertz como uma possibilidade para o estudo da cultura das organizações hospitalares
Resumo
El artículo transita por algunos fundamentos
de la antropología y de la antropología/
hermenéutica/interpretativa, y se basa en tres obras de Clifford Geertz, principal representante de la antropología interpretativa: El saber local, La interpretación de las culturas y Nueva luz sobre la antropología. Esa lectura fundamentó la reflexión sobre la pregunta:
¿es pertinente la aproximación del
referencial teórico-metodológico propuesto
por Geertz para comprender la cultura en
relación con el estudio de la cultura de las
organizaciones hospitalarias? En el artículo
se considera que estudiar la cultura, de
acuerdo con el pensamiento de Geertz, es
entender la interpretación de los sujetos acerca de su mundo social y de los modos de
pensamiento directamente observables en
sus experiencias construidas bajo la dirección del significado de los símbolos compartidos a partir de la etnografía. Se concluye que esta visión permite comprender la estructura de las relaciones que ocurren dentro de las organizaciones hospitalarias, lo que a la vez favorece las cuestiones referentes a los trabajadores, a la gestión y, en consecuencia, a los usuarios y a la sociedad.
This paper covers some basic concepts of anthropology and of interpretive anthropology / hermeneutics. It is based on three books by Clifford Geertz, the main representative of interpretive anthropology: Local knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology, The Interpretation of Cultures, and Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics. Reading those works led to reflecting on the question, is Geertz’s theoretical - methodological reference approach for understanding culture relevant to studying culture in hospital organizations? The authors of this paper consider that, according to Geertz’s thought, studying culture consists of understanding the subjects’ interpretation of their social world and of the kinds of thinking that they observe directly in their experiences built, according to the meaning that they give to shared ethnographical symbols. The authors conclude that this view enables understanding the structure of the relations inside hospital organizations, which, in turn, favors issues regarding workers, management and, consequently, users and the society at large.
This paper covers some basic concepts of anthropology and of interpretive anthropology / hermeneutics. It is based on three books by Clifford Geertz, the main representative of interpretive anthropology: Local knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology, The Interpretation of Cultures, and Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics. Reading those works led to reflecting on the question, is Geertz’s theoretical - methodological reference approach for understanding culture relevant to studying culture in hospital organizations? The authors of this paper consider that, according to Geertz’s thought, studying culture consists of understanding the subjects’ interpretation of their social world and of the kinds of thinking that they observe directly in their experiences built, according to the meaning that they give to shared ethnographical symbols. The authors conclude that this view enables understanding the structure of the relations inside hospital organizations, which, in turn, favors issues regarding workers, management and, consequently, users and the society at large.
Descrição
Palavras-chave
Organizaciones, Organización y administración, Cultura organizacional, Antropología cultural, Cultura, Administración hospitalaria, Organizations, Organization and administration, Organizational culture, Cultural anthropology, Culture, Hospital administration
Citação
VAGHETTI, Heidtmann Vaghetti; PADILHA, Maria Itayra Coelho de Souza; MAIA, Ana Rosete Camargo Rodrigues. O referencial teórico-metodológico de Geertz como uma possibilidade para o estudo da cultura das organizações hospitalares. Cuadernos de Administración, Bogotá, v.19, p. 179-194, jul./dez. 2006. Disponível em:< http://www.sci.unal.edu.co/pdf/cadm/v19n32/v19n32a08.pdf>. Acesso em: 04 nov. 2011.
