Sentidos dos afetos das famílias em situação de pobreza acompanhadas pelo CRAS

Abstract

The naturalized view that poor families are accommodated and dysfunctional as their affective relationships are weakened or broken, whose feelings and emotions direct them to assume resigned and fatalistic attitudes are present in capitalist culture. Thus, in order to give voice to these families, this research question itself about which way the affections constituted in the experience of poverty of families which were assisted by CRAS? In this way, the research draw attention to overall goal of understanding the senses of the affections of families assisted by CRAS who experience the poverty situation. Poverty is sighted in this study under a multidimensional approach (SEN, 2010) which considers the structure of opportunities as a fundamental aspect for the exercise of human freedom. Based on a study of qualitative focusing on intervention research, the research was developed with families accompanied by professionals from CRAS located in Conjunto Esperança neighborhood in the city of Fortaleza (CE). The methodological resources to build its data included participant observation with data journaling field, the application of Socioeconomic Questionnaire to 38 family representatives, facilitation of five workshops with families and interviews with four family groups whose representatives had participated in the workshops. The data have been analyzed from the proposal of the Thematic Content Analysis of Bardin (2011) with the help of qualitative software Atlas Ti 5.2. The results show a life in a poverty condition curtailed by abandoning history, conflicting family and community relationships, child labor, early pregnancy, urban violence, low education level, income and food deprivation associated with feelings of shame, humiliation, despair, sadness and fear which unpower the being. In this context, the allocation of responsibility for the facts to God works as damping element of social and emotional tensions generated by the insecurity of an uncertain future. On the other hand, harmonious family relationships guided in the affections of love and joy are constitute as important elements to bear the pain of the suffering caused by adverse life circumstances. Furthermore, gratitude and benevolence shown to be the affections of excellence focused on the social support of people in the community and public policy that ultimately turn powerless affects in powerful ones and this transformation materialized in solidarity practices, resulting in a more positive way of positioning across the world. We see the need to increasingly promote a liberating praxis that enables the expansion of human power provided since it should be guided by a comprehensive view of the subject from the knowledge of psychosocial conditions that underlie the understanding of emotions, affectivity being sighted as an instrument of social inclusion and mediation of more active posture toward the world.