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Sociodrama as a qualitative research method

The objective of this text was to propose Sociodrama as a qualitative research method in Psychology, to enable the group interaction the focus of investigation. The methodology of sociopsychodramatic intervention is described, showing this method difficulties, as: dramatic action planing, registration, observation, information analysis and ethic matters. Sociodrama may be an active research and a relations meanings' construction, in a dialogic process and compatible with intervention researches; It is tried to generate a reflection that may bring subsidies to the work with groups, stablishing an enlargement over the social micro-reality, considering: the complexity built in the affective relations, releasing the spontaneous potential of the group.

Sociodrama; Qualitative Research; Method; Intervention Research


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