A família ocupacional arquivistas e museólogos: posicionamento na classificação brasileira de ocupações e perfil de emprego

Abstract

Archivists and Museologists are gathered on the Archivists and Museologists Occupational family, in the Brazilian Occupations Classification. In order to contribute to a critical reflection about these professionals positioning, in this classificatory instrument, this research aimed to answer the following questions: why the Archivists and Museologists positioning is inside the same Occupational family? Who are the Archivists and Museologists and where are they working? This research specific objectives were: present the Archivists and Museologists positioning in the Brazilian Occupations Classification; explain the reason why these professionals are linked within a sole Occupational family; characterize the formal job profile of the Archivists and Museologists from statistic data displayed on the Social Information Annual Report. This research was based on theoretical aports from the Professions Sociology; from Archivists and Museologists socio-historical trajectory; from interfaces between Archivology, Museology and interdisciplinary areas; from the conceptualization of Brazilian Occupations Classification; from studies about the labor market of the Archivists, the Museologists and the Archivists and Museologists. The methodological approach was qualitative and quantitative; the interpretational level of objectives was descriptive and explicative; and documental and bibliographical researches were the used techniques. This is a relevant theme, for it contributes with notes that can be used on a possible revision and updating of the Brazilian Occupations Classification document; for there are only a few researches about this Occupational family and for innovating while using the Social Information Annual Report to characterize the Archivists and Museologists. This researchs results point to the following ideas: Archivists and Museologists belong to the same Occupational family for pragmatic reasons there was not any theoretical and methodological consistency for this junction , for numerical blankness and for the use, even though adapted, of the International Standard Classification of Occupations, from 1988, as a reference to elaborate the Brazilian Occupations Classification; there are interfaces between Archivology and Museology, but the area professionals work with different objects and get specific attributions; in order to be a useful tool, the Brazilian Occupations Classification informations must be updated according to the labor reality of those professionals; this research may guide any modifications through future revision opportunities of the Brazilian Occupations Classification; one can infer a certain profile of who and where are formally employed the 2.652 Archivists and Museologists, based on the Social Information Annual Report data; the aggregated data do not reveal much about each professional job profile and obstruct public proposals and policies of Archivists and Museologists formation and employment, that is why the need of a better knowledge about the labor market of those professionals is latent and should be done in an ungrouped way; the evidencing of some hypothesis about the Archivists and Museologists job and a complete reality observation will only be done with the splitting of these two professions or/and of the corresponding statistical data.