PUBLIC POLICIES, BODY PRACTICES AND SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS ON AGEING. A CASE STUDY: THE NATIONAL SPORTS PLAN AND THE SPORTS GAMES, BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE

Abstract

In this paper we present the ideas of a number of speeches from which public policies have been designing and implementing that have embodied body practices (related to sport) with seniors and who build a particular social representation of ageing. In these policies, were detected to study social dimensions from which were identified and categorized traits that allowed us to highlight certain aspects for the interpretation and analysis of them. Preliminary progress is linked to a qualitative approach of research that do not pursue knowledge as universal and only closed truth, but to provide a framework for understanding certain features and characteristics of the studied reality. In the speeches of the programs analyzed there is a reductionist view of the body practices in old age, in which is shown to sports and ascetic habits like utilitarian goods for achieving good longevity and also a good channeling, aside subjective and collective meanings that operate in those who are going through these scenarios.