Emoções e sociabilidade urbana uma etnografia sobre a comunidade do Timbó, João Pessoa - PB

Abstract

This work is an ethnographic research that seeks to analyze the sociability of a peripheral community in the city of João Pessoa - PB. The research universe studied is the Timbó Community, located in the Bancários neighborhood, south of the city, which is sited in an area of increasing real estate appreciation in the city, which influences urban and social reconfiguration processes that permeate the daily lives of residents. In this context in which the Timbó Community is circumscribed, the objective is to understand the sociability that characterizes living in Timbó, in order to identify the emotional culture and the codes of moralities that constitute the experience of the resident and make up the Timbó place - place of belonging and personality where close and lasting affective bonds are preserved and exercised. The analysis was based on the discussion of the feeling of belonging, of the personality, of the homophilic networks and of the social markers of differentiation as elements that configure the relationships that are established between the residents of the community. These elements inform the emotive culture and the codes of morality in force and contribute to a unique way for the resident to understand himself and the other relational from Timbó, a place where he is inserted and builds an individuality. The ethnographic data produced in the field work thus reveal the personal logic that guides the form of sociability in Timbó and provides elements of solidarity and conflict present in everyday life, such as differentiation strategies, mutual assistance, accusations, justifications and forms of conflict management, which are present in the sociability of the Timbó Community and be discussed in this work.