A possibilidade de autonomia do indivíduo em uma ciência do comportamento

Abstract

This work aims to explore the possibility of talking about autonomy and freedom in behavior analysis, a discipline that brings concepts such as environmental determinism and behavior control as key elements for the vision of the world and of man. In this scenario, there was a survey of texts related to the view of science through behavior analysis and the concepts of control, self-control and counter-control. Thus, it was important to emphasize the definitions of freedom and culture in social texts in this area of knowledge. Finally, when relating the various controls with freedom according to radical behaviorism, self-control and counter-control were the main ways found to promote autonomy and make the individual free from a perspective based on environmental determinism. Some issues such as the values that permeate counter-control and culture planning are important topics to be better developed in future works, as well as the possibility of extending these definitions of science and the technology of behavior itself to a greater number of people