Author
Rui Telmo Gomes
Title
(PT)
Publication Date: April 2001 - Language: Portuguese
N. of Pages: 12 - N. of Copies: 1500
Type of Cover: Paperback - Format: 21 x 29,5 - Price: Free
Abstract: The present and following edition of the Folha OBS focus on Portuguese cultural habits. In this edition, attention is placed on daily leisure activities included herein in a broad definition of cultural practises. The data on which the analysis is based is taken from the 'Time-Budget Survey' launched by the Instituto Nacional de Estatística, with the participation of the OAC and other entities. Information was collected in the last quarter of 1999, in an operation in which individual questionnaires were used (in relation to the implementation of various cultural practises over the year) as well as a family questionnaire (concerning the ownership of equipment in the family household) and a form to be filled in on a daily basis (intended for the description of activities carried out over the course of the day). In this text, only data from the first two instruments is taken into consideration. The interpretation proposed herein emphasises the importance of two intersecting vectors: on the one hand, the extent of generalisation of the overmentioned cultural practises in the Portuguese population; and on the other hand, the extent of social differentiation associated to such practises. In relation to the first aspect, the focus is placed on leisure activities that are more or less universally practised by the Portuguese. The second aspect corresponds to identification of the principles of selectivity and social distinction of certain leisure time activities in accordance with the social profile of those practising such activities. A combined interpretation of these aspects reveals, for example, that leisure habits practised by most Portuguese citizens may be presented as transversal between different social groups, but also reveal marked asymmetries. There is not, therefore, a linear articulation between the vectors of generalisation and differentiation. Over the course of the text a summary approach is made to an interpretation of leisure activities in the light of the possible combinations between the poles of accumulation and exclusion of cultural practises.