Movimentação dos atores idosos na esfera pública e na sociedade cilvil : sociabilidades presentes no território dos idosos

Abstract

The purpose was to analyze how the social spaces are constituted to experience the old age and the sociability that generate identity and power to the elderly, transforming them into social actors. The methodological referential was qualitative. The subjects were 22 elderly. The interviewed were indicated by known people, via snow ball method: each interviewed showed references/indications from other closeable individuals to participate in the study in question. The instrument was a research guide with open questions and the interpretation was from analyzes of categories. From the results we can affirm that the elderly experience different dynamics of life and they don?t want to be seen as sick or poor people. The ideal types found were: lonely and widow female elderly; Military Politician elderly; elderly engaged in cultural movements; spiritualized and solidary elderly and elderly who work and study the question of aging. But the sociability spaces are what allow that the elderly who potentiate and acquire identity by their actions. Its in the interaction processes (association) that are going to be constituted as acting subjects and building the different old ages (ideal kinds) that we find today in the public sphere. The elderly who participate in different associations enrich their social circle and also their own development, intensifying different interactions, in the political, cultural or religious means. The movement in the public sphere happens when its actions are boosted by the subjectivity, what enable it to have more reflectivity, from the social movements. This reflectivity stimulates it to its choices, to the engagement and political participation or to the hedonism and the religiosity and the advices of right have duty and the obligation to enable the access to this knowledge, as well as the Universities. The elderly who have political engagement present a leadership and charisma that potentiate them to the action and bring this knowledge to the hand on their life journey. The elderly is still represented by politicians, intellectuals and other people interested in benefiting from the aging social question. Few people are going to waking up to this reality and they start their participation, but by high number of elderly in Brazil, this political participation is still negligible and so we can say that the elderly aren?t the real protagonists in the public sphere yet, because their movementaction is still something new even among the elderly themselves.