Laços e gerações: um estudo sobre velhos(as) de Santa Maria/RS e sua condição de sujeito

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

In this research it presents an empirical study on the present condition of the elderly of the city of Santa Maria/ RS, as being part of an analysis that passes by the topics of the aging process through consideration of daily social roles, the relations in the family environment and intergenerational, of life after work and, finally, the subjects condition of the elderly in the contemporaneity. That circumstance was approached through two perspectives: the subject under the social determinations (Sociological perspective) and the subject of experience (Social psychology perspective). Starting with an initial collection of information (appendix I) referring to the social situation of the elderly in Santa Maria, RS, it has searched for, through interviews and life story speech (appendix II) and later analysis, identifying and understanding the amplitude and the complexity of everyday living situations of being elderly: the notion of that population about what is, for them, to be old and the emphatic relation that the subjects establish with quality of life and health, with kinship; their memories; the influences of modernity, their spaces of sociability, particularly leisure, their dreams and realization, the possibilities of the emerging of reflexivity of their lives, in accordance with the subjects expressions concerned about, among others, freedom, responsibility and happiness. The main conclusion of this study can be formulated from the following view: public policies still can not provide life conditions so that the elderly existences can show characteristics which offer longevity and dignity, independently of the lives singularities that it had access

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elderly modernity social roles ciencias sociais aplicadas idosos envelhecimento santa maria/rs papéis sociais modernidade

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