O espaço cotidiano da Praça Saldanha Marinho - Santa Maria/RS: um olhar sobre as formas de interações sociais

Abstract

This study is about forms of social interactions and their microterratorialization sin the daily space of Saldanha Marinho Square, in Santa Maria/RS. Using Maffesoli ssociological formism methodology it was tried to investigate the forms and social contents, seeking understand the microappropriationsof space by different coexistence groups. So it is seek to investigate symbolic, relational and aesthetic aspects which define the boundaries of coexistence between social aggregates. In this sense, it was verified that Saldanha Marinho Square sets up itself by presenting several types of aggregations which relate in different ways, and that necessarily territorialize specific parts of space. It is verified that the square, in this dimension, characterizes by presenting justapost territories representing several life styles, symbolic forms and aesthetic and cultural expressions. So, two major territorializations were found, and represent ways of social interactions quite specific, defined by sharing in common of aesthetic and symbolic expressions among the individuals. In the morning, the space sets up by the presence of coexistence aggregations among elderly, which present several forms of social interactions in the space on social practices carried out by individuals. They are, mostly men due to idle time, go daily to the city center, specifically to the square in search of social life. In the afternoon, mainly on the weekends, it was found that the configuration space is altered by the presence of visible youth groups micro-territorializations and these are students and military. Thus, these young groups seek, during free time, conduct practices of leisure and entertainment in the city center, where the Saldanha Marinho Square is the main point of the micro-appropriate places by the groups in the urban space of Santa Maria city. Furthermore, it was noted in the space the presence of other forms of interactions which represent multiple subjectiveinterests of the multi-territorializated individuals. Therefore, the Saldanha Marinho Square comprises a coexistence place of multiple forms of interactions that, whenspatialized, form groups before micro-territorializated groups cohabitations borders, producing micro-spaces of coexistence groups which result from social segregation or aggregation groups.