Uma crítica à literatura de auto-ajuda: o embasamento através da cultura e leitura

Abstract

This work is a criticism of the literature of self-help, and support of the approach on reading and culture, as the self-help is linked to various cultural factors, in reading that need a more consistent analysis to embasar that criticism. The problem of this work is the fruit of the following questions: What are the demands ofthe creation ofthe literature of self-help? What drives the literature of self-help win many followers and consumers of their products? What are the criticisms made to this theory, and what kinds of harm that may cause gender humanity? The goal of the work is to analyze the literature of self-help in the context of the cultural industry and culture of bodies, showing the influence of gender in people's lives, how to identify this type of literature, and its commercial aspecto In this study the method was applied exploratory in nature with qualitative approach. The survey consists of bibliographic review. The first chapter gives an explanation on culture, highlighting its origins, history, conceptual development, culture and mass cultural industry related to consumption. In the second we do an analysis of reading, emphasizing a brief history and a brief conceptual analysis, and the relationship between reading and criticality and policies to encourage reading. The third approach is 00- the literature of aid, showing a historic vision, conceptual, the identification of the production of self-help, favorable and unfavorable views and the relationship between self-help and Cultural Industry.