Social phenomenology: analysis of academic production of graduate in nursing, Brazil, 1979-2010

Objective: To analyze the academic production of Brazilian Nursing with approach to Social Phenomenology of Alfred Schütz. A structured approach to Social Phenomenology by Schütz stands out among the possibilities of referential philosophical and methodological of qualitative research. Method: study of narrative review of literature, from the catalogs of the Center for Studies and Research in Nursing dissertations and theses that were produced between 1979/2010. Data collection was conducted in December 2011. Results: it was found 65 titles, with a concentration of production in the 2000s (73,85%), in the southeast region (95,38%) and in the area of care (69,2%). Conclusion: This referential is constituted as a possibility in the construction of knowledge resulting from research in nursing through research of phenomena of everyday life that support philosophically assistance and teaching.