Etnografando o coração da cidade: estudos das formas de sociabilidade e pertencimento na praça da Bandeira e no "Calçadão" em Campina Grande-PB.

Abstract

This work focuses on analyzing the sociability and sense of belonging in the urban space, specifically in the city center of Campina Grande. In areas such as the Flag Square and "Boardwalk" of Vieira Cardoso, where we realize, in their day-to-day social relations practiced by individuals and groups who meet and establish coexistence, strengthening the feeling of belonging to both groups in space. During the research we conducted several raids in the field different days and times, as the same observation and the living day-to-day with groups and individuals attending these spaces as possible to understand this sociability and sense of belonging to a group and to place himself occurs. As methodological procedure used ethnography. Drawing on research techniques such as observation, which requires time researcher in the field and semi-structured interview, which involves open questions asked orally, in which the researcher can add questions to a predetermined script, it can also instigate responses from interviewed. These interviews were directed to the patrons of the spaces Flag Square and the "Boardwalk" of Vieira Cardoso. Amid these spaces where individuals and groups gather distinct motivated for various reasons and feelings, it becomes possible to find social relations in which life in society develops. In the course of this research we realized how these spaces are relevant in the context of the city, as spaces which enable sociability and produce a feeling of belonging, both in the sense of a social group, as compared to the space itself. This feeling of belonging is the result of an experience based on a movement in which involves the individual with others, thus deriving, the construction of a personal and collective identity. We can say that the feeling of belonging to the space of Flag Square and the "Boardwalk" of Vieira Cardoso, is evidenced by the fact that these spaces are the locus of social practices in which we find the various networks of sociability established daily.