O culto à beleza e à juventude: uma análise da expansão dos serviços de beleza e a sua importância para a geração de empregos no setor de fitness no Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Montalvão, Sérgio Aguiar
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20917
• topic: Serviços de beleza; Geração de empregos; Setor fitness; Beauty services; Generation of jobs; Fitness sector; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS

This doctoral thesis aims to study the labor market of professionals dedicated to achieving the ideal of feminine and masculine beauty in their contemporary expressions. The research problematization circulates around the necessary competencies that are required for the exercise of the Physical Education and Fitness profession and if the country is prepared to provide due and responsible training to them. The guiding hypotheses of the work are the illegal exercise of the profession and the need to update the training of the Physical Education and Fitness professionals, a delayed and expensive training, and there are no resources for the country to support it. The justifications for the accomplishment of the work are four: 1) the fact that the labor market is responsible for the income of the majority of the population and for their life chances; 2) the fact that beauty services were not hit by the crisis; 3) the illegal exercise of the profession; and 4) the participation of the beauty services sector in the Brazilian Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The general objectives are to analyze the labor market of beauty service providers, especially those trained in Physical Education, to demonstrate their expansion, the professional skills required and the economic and social importance of these services. It is therefore a question of identifying in these professionals, if in the moments of crisis, these professionals faced some difficulty for the clients conquest. The specific objectives are: 1) To verify that instructors of academies, as professionals in the field and possessing the required professional skills, perceive the profession as promising in the labor market; 2) Justify the data according to the one raised in the current research. As for the methodology, the data that base this research were obtained through semi-structured interviews whose content should confirm or not the guiding hypotheses of the work already mentioned. Regarding the conclusions, with the outcome of the research, it is noticed that the professionals interviewed despite the difficulties that the sector presents, do not think of abandoning the branch as they consider it profitable and promising