Para pensar o tempo livre: impasses e desafios

Abstract

This is a theoretical and methodological framework on the meaning of free time, starting from the interfaces, challenges and dilemmas with the world of work in contemporary issues. The initial focus concerns changes from the restructuring of production, altering the social and interpersonal relationships, leading to new ways to experience social reality, especially in the dimension of time and which can be considered free time. It is a theoretical-methodological study on the significance/reframing of free time, starting from the interfaces with the world of work in contemporary society. The initial focus is on changes from the productive restructuring, which alter the group and interpersonal relationships, leading to new ways to experience social reality, especially in the dimension of time, and which can be identified as being free time. This research aims to establish a perspective of analysis and interpretation of qualitative epistemology using an approach that follows the grounded theory in which search in historical, sociological and psychological data, the theoretical understanding necessary to understand a possible change towards the centrality of work-related psychosocial processes, the emergence of new modes of production of social subjectivity regarding the meanings of free time in modern society. Empirical work on a larger scale was based on interviews with professionals, young people looking their first job and retired people. Found in the development of focal groups (young and old) a supplementary unfolding in mapping changes in the field of practices and values that define new "areas of meaning" of the meanings of free time for the investigated samples, as well as understand that meaning can be defined and redefined through social interaction.