Consciência e identidade : uma atuação, com base na psicologia social comunitária, junto a um grupo de terceira idade

Abstract

The present paper has a number of goals; continue the previous work along the Senior Group; to rescue the elderly social function and strengthen group identity and collective ties through the development of activities that search for intensify the participation of members in this group and in society, seek by examining the roots of the Community Social Psychology, subsidies for better comprehension of the proposed knowledge, to determine their characteristics, importance and implications, and understand the relationships between investigation / research and promoting strategic actions in the investigated reality and to analyze the development of (re) construction processes about the group identity, through the concepts of consciousness and identity. To achieve the purposed we used the methodology of the Research Participant. Survey participants were elderly, members of a Senior Group called "Renascer" in Porto Rico city, Parana, Brazil. The research process began when the researcher went to the group meetings that ranged from 15 to 30 days. Through the information about the investigated reality, from the previous work and discussions about the needs of the group, several actions were designed allowing the strengthening of collective ties and a more effective participation in the group works and community. Among many actions, the work culminated in a framework criation of personals photos, aimed rescue the history of the community and to document for the present generations and the future generations. With the development of actions and participation of the elderly, we could analyze the process of building group identity and understand them as a process in constant transformation and that man's uniqueness is expressed in affective and motivational way, through the relationship with other men, in other words, in group life.