MARCIA FRAGA SAMPAIO & EDNA Chernicharo
This work in the Community of Mangueira - RJ investigates memory in the elderly as guardians of cultural history and its importance in Rio transmitter function of family and social traditions for the construction of cultural identity and maintaining traditions. The focus is on stories of a past, on which the record of the experiences of 'life lived' aims to develop and restore the possibility of each one is in a unique way on carioca culture that is crossed by decentralizations, globalization and the relentless digital globalization. The elderly are invited to tell stories about themselves, within a space for listening in your personal story is unique and privileged position in the job from the method for recording the social field of Bourdieur and Operational Group of Pichon Riviere. It is considered the elderly subjects who occupy a position of social actor and spectator in the social fabric, checking the effects of subjective location opposite the building of a socio-cultural identity, focusing on the possibilities of upgrading the aging.