O Ateneu: an analysis of the disciplinary mechanisms in Raul Pompeia’s novel

Abstract

This article presents a sociological analysis of disciplinary mechanisms operation represented in O Ateneu, written by Raul Pompeia on 19th Century. The representation of Ateneu's institution as a school – or, in other words, a place of production and preservation of rites, beliefs and techniques that produce one desired disciplinary effect – in this analysis signalizes one approach between symbolic power concepts, from P. Bordieu, and disciplinary power, from M. Foucault, applied in the school quotidian. Therefore, we analyze the disciplinary technologies attributed to the educational space, approaching the positions of the agents that participatein Ateneu’s disciplinary routine through provisions, interests and collectively constructed senses.