Quando a universidade é uma festa: trote e formatura

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Rios, Renata Lerina Ferreira
• Orientador(a): Bastos, Maria Helena Câmara
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: EDUCAÇÃO; ENSINO SUPERIOR; TROTE UNIVERSITÁRIO; FORMATURA; RITUAIS
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/2723

This research analyzes the student festive rituals of admission into and graduation from university, from Brazil’s academic world: the trote and the formatura. These rituals have the purpose to accomplish the passage from secondary to university studies in the case of the trote and the passage from university to the professional world in the case of the formatura. This research uses specific concepts (rite, ritual, time, limit, symbol, symbology, symbolism, identity, festival, image and imagery) which are, at the same time, the basis and shape that limit and support this work. Bibliographic analyses, interviews and questionnaires to university students, teachers and workers, and observations in locus are the methods to perform this research. The data were gathered at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul. The research covers the historical background in which these two rituals were originated back in the Middle Ages, together with the development of university itself. Whereas the research has its basis in the academic world, it also includes the media, the relations between academic life and society, and the ways these rituals have been distorted since their origin in the Middle Ages to present day society, imbued with consumerism and violence. The trote and the formatura are analyzed as reflections of the processes that society undergoes. The final considerations are centered around the mutations between the original symbology of these rituals and the current idea in society in which trote is mistaken for violence and formatura for pretentiousness.