Bora Comer? A comensalidade entre estudantes no RU da Universidade Manguetown

Abstract

This monograph is based on an exploratory qualitative research, whose objective was to discover the meanings for the students about the Universitary Restaurant (RU)of the Manguetown University,and as specific objectives: to identify the relationship that they establish between commensality and sociabilitsty and understand the meaning of eating together.The observation in loco as a methodological procedure, allowed to participate in the collective eating and to understand the commensality experienced by the students. In addition to the observation, interviews were conducted with 30 students from various courses and shifts of the Manguetown. The interviews were analyzed according to the technique of content analysis proposed by Bardin.For the students,RU means the place where are fed at the University through the guarantee of the offer of a quality food.The RU isa place that allows a sociability fed or mediated through the commensality exercised in the sharing of ameal to the table; it’s a place that is not just for eating,but for talking, having fun, interacting and fraternizing; like a second home.