Abstract

SOLIGO, Valdecir. Indicadores: conceito e complexidade do mensurar em estudos de fenômenos sociais. Est. Aval. Educ. [online]. 2012, vol.23, n.52, pp.12-25. ISSN 0103-6831.

This paper aims to discuss the category of “indicators” which focuses on the historical development of social indicators and conceptual aspects of possible direct or indirect relationship with quality indicators in education. Therefore, it is a brief incursion into the process of constructing a theoretical field concerning social indicators to further analyze the Basic Education Development indices in the municipalities of Santa Catarina with less than five thousand people and who took the Brazil Test in 2005, 2007 and 2009. The space-time perspective is related to the scarcity of studies aimed at the construction of meanings for the indicators in the context of small Brazilian municipalities. As a preliminary result, we highlight the fragility of the relationship between social and educational indicators in face of the conceptual and the measurement complexity of social phenomena which require the reinsertion of the measurable part in the sociohistorical reality from which it was taken for political and social understanding and significance.

Keywords : Indicators; Measurement; Education.

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