Morality, Gift and Sociation: An Analysis from the Mutual Alcoholic Assistance Groups Anonymous

Authors

  • Eduardo Tadeu Brunello UFCG

Keywords:

associations, morality, alcoholism, gift, Alcoholics Anonymous

Abstract

The aim of the article is to analyze the production of a sense of morality from the current talks in groups of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), but concurrently explore the possibilities of agency of the actors through the "sociations" (SIMMEL, 2006) emerging from these therapeutic platforms. For this, I use as a hypothesis the idea that this sense of morality is built through external and coercive activities (about speeches on the disease) for, second, deconstruct it in terms of face-to-face gift interactions and sociations.

 

Author Biography

Eduardo Tadeu Brunello, UFCG

Doutorando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais (PPGCS) da Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG, Brasil) e colaborador do Grupo de Pesquisa Sociedade, Saúde e Cultura (Grupessc) da Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB, João Pessoa, Brasil). É mestre pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais (PPGSOC) da Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL, Brasil), especialista no ensino de sociologia pela UEL e graduado em ciências sociais pela mesma universidade.

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Published

2017-12-20

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 3 (2017): SET/OUT/NOV/DEZ

Section

Articles

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