Morte e mortificação social: uma análise das transformações sociais do luto em uma comunidade popular católica.

Abstract

When analyzing death and its variants, one thinks about how the social actor can transform his understanding and experience about his reality, experience and people around him, as well as processes related to death, such as mourning. In this context, mourning presents itself as a space for social reintegration based on the situation of resignification of loss. Thus, this work aims to understand the social transformations of mourning consequent to urban development in the city of Campina Grande - PB from the research in the Rosa Mística community. For this, a qualitative methodology was used, based on oral history and the application of semi-structured interviews, as well as field trips. Initially, the following hypotheses were raised: the influence of increased urbanization resulted in a decrease in religious rites among Catholic faithful in the Rosa Mística community of the city of Campina Grande - PB, and this process resulted in the Subjects and groups in which they are inserted. As results it was noticed that the transformation over death and the processes of mourning appeared in the context of the investigated space, and that, there is a connection of the urban logic in this change, this aspect caused a split within the reality of the group to understand and to experience the processes of Death and mourning more broadly - there being also an individual and community mourning in that space. Death expands to a context of mortification when thinking about the deficiencies of urban space that the subjects are inserted, and grief goes beyond the perspective of subjectivation, and enters the space of overcoming social challenges, it also becomes a struggle. There is a desire to reintegrate socially, however, it is also through the autonomy and demand of public policies, that is, it goes beyond internal transformation, it expands seeking social adequacy and breaking the stigma.