Senhores (as) de si? Velhice, políticas públicas e participação entre idosos inseridos em grupos e associações

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Kátia Ramos
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/9736
• topic: Sociologia política; Sociedade civil; Políticas Públicas; Grupos - Associações; Velhice; Political sociology; Civil society; Public policy; Groups - Association; Old age; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA

The experiences of growing old in the contemporany society are marked by a heterogeneous character. Through this, the object of study of this research seeks to travel down between the so called groups and association for the elderly and the public policies executed in the state of Paraíba. Although these groups and association "for the elderly" contain diverse proposals, they hold a significant meaning for the members who integrate them. Therefore, they enable the coexistence between individuals of similar age, also facilitate the formation of sociability relationships and entrenched the community solidarity's network that extrapolate the limits of the group and reflects in the subjetivity of the participants. Their objective, on the other hand, goes beyond the direct intersubjective bonds and bounce to the public sphere in the anticipation of affecting policies and programs related to the "third age". Therefore, the objective of this paper is to analyse if the participation of the elderly in groups and associations of the state of Paraíba affects the preparation/execution of state public policies, impacting in the perception of "being old" nowadays. As part of the survey methodology, we made contact with the state public power, conducted visits in the associative centre to observe the practices, semi-structured and in-depth interviews, and raising information about the history of the groups in the cities of João Pessoa and Campina Grande, besides the study of the thematic bibliography. Furthermore, with acting cut-off line from 2003 to the first semester of 2015, we aim to discover if and how the Paraiba's people in an age considered old, who are participants of specific groups and association, have been inserted in the group of actions deliberated by the public power, if and how they organize themselves collectively to demand the law enforcement and relate to other individuals from their generational group, by building the possibility of to be old nowadays. The results indicate that through the demographic growth, the ways of resistence and acting in the city spaces that they attend - locus of this research - there is the appreciation of the elderly person as a protagonist in the achievement and realization of his/her rights. Faced with this, the present research finds support to the discussion of the enforcement of the Senior Citizen's Statute in Paraíba and the inclusion of this social individual in the deliberated actions.