O consumo de bebidas alcoólicas como forma de lazer nas classes populares do Recife.

Abstract

This monograph presents a small study about the consumption of alcoholic beverages as a form of leisure in the popular classes of Recife, to analyze this phenomenon resorting to the dispositional theory or the action and to the concepts of social classes, leisure and consumption. We thus constructed two sociological portraits to identify the motives or factors that led individuals in the lower classes to choose to consume alcoholic beverages as a leisure practice, rather than other forms of free time use. We hypothesize that the consumption of alcoholic beverages is considered by these actors a common act, carried out by means of embodied dispositions built during their life trajectories. At the same time as a result of this cultivation of inclinations for this practice, the consumption of alcoholic beverages contribute, in this social stratum, to an expansion of socialization networks that involve concrete dimensions of social life, such as family, professional life and relationships Community policies. Therefore, the consumption of alcoholic beverages is seen by these individuals of the popular classes as a legitimate form of leisure, even though they are aware that there are other possible forms of entertainment that do not necessarily involve this act. The relationship of these other forms, however, according to the data of this research, in order to be considered legitimate, like the consumption of alcoholic beverages, must undergo a continuous process of enrollment in individuals, as predispositions to other ways of thinking, feel and act in the social world.