JUVENTUDE RURAL DE LARANJEIRAS DO SUL: ESPAÇOS DE LAZER, SOCIABILIDADE E TERRITORIALIZAÇÃO

Abstract

The research aimed analyze and understand the leisure and sociability, experienced by rural youth of Laranjeiras do Sul-Pr, and how these were changing or being changed, from the changes occurring in the place, always looking at other broader contexts. The study was conducted in three rural communities of the municipality, characterized by the presence of family farming. To develop the analysis we work with two generations: one composed of people who lived his youth in the 1980 and the rural youth of the current generation. Used as instruments for date collection, oral history through technical interviews with the two generations and the present one, also focal groups and participant observation. The interpretation of this reality required an understanding of the technological, economic and social processes that engendered the changes occuring in leisure spaces, networks of youth sociability and territorial dynamics of rural youth studied over time consequently, it was possible to verify some aspects related to family relationships, the construction of their individual and collective identities and projects for the future of youth belonging to rural communities studied.