O espelho quebrado: perspectivas sobre o envelhecimento, o velho e a velhice

• Ano de defesa: 2005
• Autor(a) principal: Paula, Débora Campos de
• Orientador(a): Santos, Luiz Antonio de Castro
• Banca de defesa: Campos, Anna Maria de Souza Monteiro , Peixoto, Clarice Ehlers , Faria, Lina Rodrigues de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva
• Departamento: Centro Biomédico::Instituto de Medicina Social
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Envelhecimento; Velho; Velhice; Representações sociais
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Aging; Elderly; Old Age; Social representations
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA::EPIDEMIOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/4292

The conducting thread of this work is the social representations of the elderly, of old age and aging, according to the material published by Veja magazine (from 1968 to 2003). The study was based on the images, meanings and significances of these three categories, giving special attention to the preponderance, the permanence or the disappearance of some of the representations observed along the analyzed years. The analysis highlighted the growing visibility of the subject in the magazines, as well the use of specialists to corroborate the prevalent visions, inferring legitimacy to health, behavior and esthetics patterns. Examining the images available in the different issues, it was possible to observe that, besides the key representations of a certain time, there were many others that made the reading of the material more flexible, contradicting the first idea that there were fewer varieties of representations than those that had really been observed.