PORTRAITS OF A NEW LIFE (!?): analysis of the social reintegration experiences of graduates from therapeutic communities
Drugs; Religion; Dispositions; Sociological Portraits; Therapeutic Communities
The present thesis aimed to comprehend the universe of actors/egresses from Therapeutic Communities for Drug Addiction (CTIs), based on the reconstruction of their biographies and the potential (re)arrangements of their dispositional assets within their experiences of returning to their former contexts of sociability and other spheres of action. The tensions, conflicts, violence, the quest to preserve and/or deny identities and/or religious dispositions activated within these therapeutic communities, the challenges of reintegration into different contexts, the ruptures with former social networks, as well as the re-signification and/or establishment of new ones; among others; all represented some of the various aspects deeply explored in this investigation. Thus, it was based on the assumption of considering CTIs as spaces of socialization that tend to favor singular performances of their participants; the egresses as "plural actors", as well as the pluralities of post-internship spaces; that from a qualitative approach, this case study was conceived in light of Bernard Lahire's theoretical-methodological perspective (2004). Therefore, an approach within the field of sociology at the individual level was carried out, resulting in the development of "sociological portraits" of five voluntary egresses from CTIs, thus unveiling various aspects of their biographies, as well as some of the diverse ways in which past socializing experiences have been reconfigured in the present moment, influencing or even being inhibited or re-signified for the composition of "new" actions.