TEORIA DAS REPRESENTAÇÕES SOCIAIS EM AGENDA PARA O CAMPO DE PÚBLICAS - ELABORAÇÕES EM CATEGORIAS EMERGENTES.

The research is based on the potential of the Theory of Social Representations (TRS) for the public field, an argument underlying the objective of aggregating discussion on the theme from a meta-synthesis. For this, 357 texts were extracted from the Web of Science database, based on the title descriptors "social representation", with the connective "and" and the topic "public", considering the time span from 1945 to 2021. The abstracts followed a lexical analysis, with the help of the Iramuteq software, elaborating categories and subcategories, with the support of the Atlas Ti software, with the perspective of setting up insights to expand the argument. The main categorizations generated were: i) Representations, communication and knowledge; ii) Representations, law(s) and social stereotypes; iii) Public discourse: hegemonic; legitimacy; normativity and accessibility; iv) Research methods and techniques. It is inferred that research within the scope of TRS associated with the public field comprises a multifaceted, understanding-based field that aims to elucidate critical issues in society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]