SUBJECTIVE SOCIAL WELL-BEING OF CAPOEIRA AS PHYSICAL ACTIVITY : AN EXPLORATORY STUDY USING HERMENEUTIC- PHENOMENOLOGY
AUTOR(ES)
André Luiz Teixeira Reis
FONTE
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
200309
RESUMO
The purpose of this study is to uncover how a group of people experience subjective social well-being (SSWB) through physical activity based in \ capoeira\ - a Brazilian martial art which includes fight, dance, music, work in group, its own philosophy and rituals. The experience reflects subjective and conscious elements of the participant\ s mind, which include thoughts, reflections, beliefs and values directed to the objects of their lives. Existing literature about the epistemology of \ health\ and subjective well-being is addressed and the role of physical activities for the attaining of SSWB. The philosophical paradigm includes the nature of knowledge in researching human values and experiences and it involves the use of hermeneutic phenomenology as the methodological principle. As part of this, the Van Manen\ s (1990) phenomenological perspectives of body, space, time, lived relations are used as framework for grasping human experiences. These principles guide the research process and techniques for gathering, reducing, and interpreting information. Interviews and on-line messages were the techniques for collecting data; as well as a reflexive daily journal from the researcher participant observation. The research comprises three studies exploring the phenomenon of living the experience of SSWB: the process of initiating-maintaining (Study 1), sustaining (Study 2); and retrospective reflections (Study 3). The field study was developed in Warsaw, capital of Poland with a group of 150 people attending regular lessons of capoeira. As the main findings, study 1 confirmed that SSWB is a process of learning through time-experiencing and people may become socially active when participating in a social setting, despite personal differences and temperament. Study 2 presented time and body as the significant felt elements, perceiving what had been either good, bad or both in their deep-seated attachment. Finally, study 3, showed how participants re-think personal beyondness understood as the heuristic and holistic comprehension of the social activity.
ASSUNTO(S)
educacao fisica capoeira social well-being phenomenology physical activities hermeneutics
