The genetic analysis of ideologies as a methodological approach to discour-se

Abstract

The objective of this article is to characterize a methodology of discourse analysis (AD) the genetic analysis of ideologies (AGI), for its application in the qualitative data treatment in Social Sciences and specically, in Sociology. The discourse refers to a social work of interdiscursive production of meaning, through chicha human beings construct symbolic networks as matrices of perception and action. As such, it is produced and reproduced in certain social conditions, generating meanings that can contradict and even hide other meanings. Overcoming the linguistic and grammatical analyzes of discourse, which reduce it to its textual structures, this methodology relates the two levels of exteriority of the same: a supercial level, where producers use ideological operations to construct meanings and another deep one that refers the understanding of discourse to the social circumstances in which it emerges. Applying techniques such as content analysis, a system of categories is constructed that, later, will be schematized in semiotic pictures and actantial schemas. The foregoing, exemplifying the use of this methodology in a case of analysis of news stories referring to the discourse of subversion in the province of San Juan in the mid-seventies