Luís Gouveia

Dr. Luís Gouveia

CICS.NOVA Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA-FCSH), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
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14Years (2013-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 January 2013 in Forum Sociológico
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JRJosé Manuel Resende
José Manuel Resende
LGLuís Gouveia
Luís Gouveia
O presente artigo procura analisar o modo como os atores escolares constroem as sociabilidades entre si. Num olhar que procura ir além daquilo que os estatutos legais determinam, pretende-se compreender o que é comum nas sociabilidades escolares entre estes atores a partir das perceções dos alunos sobre situações de injustiça no espaço escolar e com base em dados recolhidos num trabalho etnográfico realizado em 6 escolas do Ensino Secundário geograficamente dispersas e com populações escolares socialmente contrastantes. Por outro lado, na análise dos juízos críticos manifestados pelos alunos, procura-se identificar igualmente possíveis clivagens segundo o género e origem social dos discentes.

1 January 2023 in Intersections
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CDCatarina Delaunay
Catarina Delaunay
LGLuís Gouveia
Luís Gouveia
This paper addresses the plural forms of reasoning used by clinical embryologists when deciding the fate of the human embryos they create and manipulate in the laboratory setting through assisted reproductive technologies (ART). Our analysis draws on empirical material from in-depth interviews with 20 clinical embryologists working at public and private fertility units/clinics in Portugal. Within a bureaucratic organisation based on a high level of professional specialisation, embryologists display multiple perspectives on the criteria they use to evaluate and classify the embryo’s quality, potential and viability. Taxonomies, international guidelines and statistical data are largely used by embryologists to qualify the embryos, basing their action on an instrumental rationality (efficient means and calculated ends recognized inductively). However, beyond technical-scientific facts and theories as intellectual tools for action, some of them also mobilize alternative ethical rationalities. Namely, value-rational action based on moral valuations and legitimate rules/ends, affectual rationality governed by emotions, affects and feeling states (such as empathy with the beneficiaries), and traditional rationality based on habits and routines (embryologist’s feeling gained by experience) intervene too. Therefore, Weber’s distinctive ideal-types and theoretical contributions, namely his foundational four types of social action are relevant for rethinking professional practices within ART, especially clinical embryology.

9 May 2025 in Patient Education and Counseling
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CDCatarina Delaunay
Catarina Delaunay
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Luís Gouveia
Metaphors are ubiquitous in healthcare communication. In fertility care and assisted reproductive technologies (ART), literature highlights a variety of metaphors in public, patient, and professional discourses. This paper explores the construction of figurative discourse in ART settings, aiming to understand how metaphors influence users' perception and interpretation. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with ART patients and medical professionals. Transcripts were thematically analyzed to identify and interpret the use and impact of metaphors in communicative interactions within ART. A total of 74 ART users and 49 health professionals were interviewed. Thematic analysis revealed eight recurrent metaphors across three main themes: Acknowledging reproductive processes ("Chicken's eggs", "Warm Oven", "Seed/Flower"); Grasping the embryo's potential ("Pretty embryos", "Winners", "Babies"); Naturalizing the strangeness ("Aliens", "Eskimos/Igloo Children"). Beyond symbolic meanings, metaphors function as communication tools in clinical encounters, combining various types of knowledge and communicative practices. Their use in ART discourses helps render complex medical language intelligible to users, significantly shaping how treatments are communicated, perceived, and experienced. Metaphors can translate clinical concepts into relatable terms, enhancing lay understanding. However, they may also contribute to distress in the event of treatment failure. By improving understanding of ART procedures and outcomes through the careful use of metaphors, medical professionals can support more effective informed consent or dissent. Training in metaphorical awareness and communication strategies may enhance healthcare providers' ability to improve patient experiences and promote well-being.

1 September 2020 in Cadernos de Pesquisa
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JRJosé Manuel Resende
José Manuel Resende
LGLuís Gouveia
Luís Gouveia
DBDavid Beirante
David Beirante
Resumo O presente artigo parte de dados recolhidos de uma pesquisa centrada nas sociabilidades escolares, pretendendo-se, na esteira de uma sociologia dos envolvimentos e comunalidades, trazer à luz outros ângulos da justiça escolar e do fazer o comum na escola. É, concretamente, mobilizada uma técnica designada por questionário por cenários, em que, a partir de uma narrativa de carácter dilemático, pretende-se aceder aos sentidos morais evidenciados por alunos inquiridos. Analisamos em particular as inquietações em torno do respeito, reconhecimento, hospitalidade e decência trazidas à colação por esses atores nas interações e nos juízos críticos produzidos - juízos esses que transcendem leituras meramente feitas a partir dos dispositivos formais reguladores das condutas no espaço escolar.

5 January 2022 in Societies
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Luís Gouveia
CDCatarina Delaunay
Catarina Delaunay
This article uses data gathered from a study conducted in Portugal to examine the (plural and composite) conceptions that doctors, embryologists, and beneficiaries of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) have of the in vitro human embryo. Taking the sociology of engagements, developed by Thévenot, as its theoretical lens, the article draws on a total of 69 interviews with ART patients to analyse the plurality of fluid meanings produced about this biological entity, whose status is neither static nor universal. ART beneficiaries are likely to produce plural conceptions of the lab-generated embryo within the framework of different regimes of engagement, understood as cognitive and evaluative formats. These various pragmatic regimes, in turn, entail distinct emotional investments. When speaking about their relationship with embryos, beneficiaries therefore express plural emotional experiences, which are articulated using terms such as affection, love, detachment, loss, frustration, hope, mourning, and anguish. Using the theoretical framework of the sociology of engagements, we propose an approach that enables us to produce a detailed record of the connections between the cognitive, evaluative, and emotional dimensions in beneficiaries’ relationship with—and decision-making processes about—the embryos, accounting for the plasticity of emotional states linked to the (re)configuration of attributed meanings.

1 January 2021 in Educação e Pesquisa
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JRJosé Manuel Resende
José Manuel Resende
LGLuís Gouveia
Luís Gouveia
DBDavid Beirante
David Beirante
LSLucas Freitas de Souza
Lucas Freitas de Souza
Resumo O presente artigo insere-se em um projeto de investigação centrado na problemática da hospitalidade na forma como os alunos agem nos territórios escolares, visibilizada por meio de experiências inóspitas e hospitaleiras vivenciadas por esses atores no decurso das sociabilidades escolares. No quadro desta problemática, pretende-se, em particular, observar como os alunos qualificados como estrangeiros se ligam à escola e, através desses laços, analisar as maneiras como se relacionam com os outros, na figura dos seus pares, em um contexto de transformação na morfologia escolar nas últimas décadas, decorrente do incremento do número de alunos estrangeiros que se matriculam nos ciclos da escolaridade obrigatória em Portugal. Mediante o quadro teórico comumente designado por sociologia pragmática, tenciona-se analisar como alunos se envolvem em diferentes e compostos regimes de ação que visam a fazer o comum no plural nos respectivos estabelecimentos de ensino. Articulam-se, para o efeito, dados de entrevistas semidiretivas e observações etnográficas levadas a cabo em duas escolas públicas do ensino médio português e que têm como traço comum albergarem fortes contingentes de alunos oriundos de contextos de imigração e com diversas nacionalidades. Incidindo o olhar sociológico sobre vários espaços tipificados que compõem o território escolar, é nas exteriorizações por parte desses alunos estrangeiros inquiridos em torno de acontecimentos efervescentes e do modo como habitam a escola que é tratada e evidenciada a problemática do reconhecimento – nomeadamente, as composições do reconhecimento do aluno na sua figura de estrangeiro e as diversas experiências em que esse reconhecimento é ou não experienciado.