"Cabelos Brancos" e "Fios de Prata": as significações das experiências de lazer nos grupos de convivência para idosos em Campina Grande.

Abstract

In this study we analise leisure experiences in Old Individuals Conviviality Groups, having as central objectives (1) understanding peculiarities of the aging process in it's relations to leisure individual experiences; (2) understanding sociability experiences in groups cited above. As theorical perspective we use contributions of Durmazedier, who considers as leisure all the activities carried out in the time in which individuals are free of professional and domestic duties. We use the ethnografic method and the direct observation, having as unity of analisys two groups of old people conviviality in Campina Grande - PB, both of them addressed to popular strata of the population. Acordding to interviews we carried out, old people consider leisure activities as therapy, as hapiness moments, moments to have fun and relax. Leisure, specially the "Forró" gives to old individuals from low strata of population observed sociability experiences beyond their home limits, gives them as well joy of the life and make them feel more active an dynamic people.