Public perception of COVID-19 in the Triângulo Mineiro region, Minas Gerais state, Brazil: a cross-sectional survey

This was a cross-sectional, anonymous, online survey aimed at assessing the perceptions and basic knowledge of COVID-19, a highly transmissible disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, in a sample population in the Triângulo Mineiro region, Minas Gerais, Brazil. A questionnaire devised by the researchers and distributed through social media was applied between June 16, 2020 and August 21, 2020. The survey consisted of questions about the basic aspects of COVID-19, which included symptoms, risk groups, suspicion of infection, prevention, transmission, and perception regarding social isolation. The average distribution, frequencies, similarities and differences between the responses for the different variables were evaluated. Five hundred twenty valid responses were obtained from participants aged ≥18 years. Most of the respondents showed satisfactory basic knowledge of COVID-19. Moreover, the data showed that the participants scored an average of 87.6%. Sex, age, and socioeconomic vulnerability presented a statistically significant link with knowledge of the disease; women, young participants, and the least socioeconomically vulnerable had the highest scores. This study indicated that the population in the Triângulo Mineiro region able to access social networking platforms were basically well informed regarding COVID-19, although differences were observed depending on the group analyzed.

As ontologias do comum e a psicologia social: fragmentos de uma aposta / Las ontologías del común y la psicología social: fragmentos de una apuesta / The ontologies of the common and social psychology: fragments of a bet

Resumo No presente artigo, pretende-se apresentar as bases ontológicas que possibilitam a emergência de um modo específico de performatizar a Psicologia Social a partir daquilo que denominaremos de ontologias do comum.Ao versarmos sobre a ontologia, o fazemos considerando-a um modo de montar o mundo, sempre revestido de uma dimensão ética, estética e política.É a partir dessa indissociabilidade entre ontologia e ética que nos afastamos da tradição filosófica da representação e nos aproximamos principalmente da perspectiva de Baruch de Espinosa e Friedrich Nietzsche - notadamente junto ao modo como os filósofos franceses Gilles Deleuze e Michel Foucault singularizam as respectivas apropriações destes pensadores.Sob este trabalho de revisão bibliográfica é que, a partir de um mosaico conceitual, gostaríamos de entender alguns conceitos-ferramenta como fundamentais para pensarmos a teoria e a prática de uma Psicologia Social específica na qual apostamos.

Resumen En el presente artículo, se pretende presentar las bases ontológicas que posibilitan la emergencia de un modo específico de performatizar la Psicología Social a partir de lo que denominaremos de ontologías de lo común.Al versar sobre la ontología, lo hacemos considerando un modo de montar el mundo, siempre revestido de una dimensión ética, estética y política.Es a partir de esa indisociación entre ontología y ética que nos alejamos de la tradición filosófica de la representación y nos acercamos principalmente a la perspectiva de Baruch de Espinosa y Friedrich Nietzsche, sobre todo al modo en que los filósofos franceses Gilles Deleuze y Michel Foucault singularizan la apropiación de estos pensadores.En este trabajo de revisión bibliográfica es que, a partir de un mosaico conceptual, quisiéramos entender algunos conceptos-herramienta como fundamentales para pensar la teoría y la práctica de una Psicología Social específica en la que apostamos.

Abstract In this article, we intend to present the ontological foundations that enable the emergence of a specific mode of Social Psychology which we refer to as the common ontologies.When we talk about ontology, we consider it to be a way of assembling the world, always coated with an ethical, aesthetics and politics dimension.It is from this inseparability between ontology and ethics that we move away from the philosophical tradition of representation and we come mainly from the perspective of Baruch Spinoza and Friedrich Nietzsche - notably along the way as the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault singularize the work of these thinkers.Under this work of literature review, from a conceptual mosaic, we would like to understand some concepts-tool as essential to think about the theory and practice of a specific Social Psychology in which we bet.