VIOLÊNCIA SIMBÓLICA CONTRA OS IDOSOS: forma sigilosa e sutil de constrangimento

• Main Author: Jacira do Nascimento Serra
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Maranhão 2010-01-01
• Series: Revista de Políticas Públicas
• Subjects: violence; senior; symbolic violence
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=321127307010

This article approaches the conceptual construction of symbolic violence in the context of several kinds of violence against senior citizens. For that it is emphasized the articulation between Pierre Bourdieu ́s thought about the symbolic power and the philosophical reflection tracks of Simone of Beauvoir. This paper highlights the reflections and analysis developed that revealed four thematic axes that bound expressions of that subtle, soft and invisible violence that imposes a dependent and submissive way of aging for senior citizens: the violence of the change of habits; the violence of the childishness; the violence of the denial of the sexuality and the violence of the autonomy deprivation. This paper is an amplification of the analytic horizon of the contemporary phenomenon of violence against senior citizens.