Sentidos e significados de tempo de lazer na atualidade: estudo com jovens belo-horizontinos

Abstract

Study about senses and meanings of leisure time in present moment which has pointed out to one of the main dilemmas of modern industrial societies: the struggle of subjects for the ownership of their existential time and the struggle of institutions for the ownership of cultural experiences in the social time. Dialogues were established with 60 youngsters, among different social groups, all dwellers of Center-South Region of Belo Horizonte, gathered in seven Focal Groups. Those data were broadened through deepening interviews carried out by three adults. The interpretations according to Discourse Analysis, as oriented by Bakhtin, were based on a theoretic frame drafted specially by Anthony Giddens´s reflections concerning late modernity as well as Michel Maffesoli´s quotidian sociology. The investigation evidences that leisure time is built up on the playful cultural experiences lived in the quotidian which, according to the listened youngsters, mean specially encounter, belonging and creative repetition. On the social plan, the study pointed out to leisure time ruled by the kairós time logic and, therefore, representing opportunity period of experiences of subjects free choices, which occur in the entirety of their quotidian experiences. Due time of anyone which seeks the overcoming of social limits established against his or her realization, highlighting those related to prejudice involving gender and ethnic, violence, exclusion, poverty, lack of dreams, information and inclusive public policies of leisure. It reveals leisure time as a sphere of subjects constitution who permanently negotiate joy experiences as liberty practice, aiming self recognition as well as recognition of the other and with the other through collectively built up experiences.