Voluntariado e engajamento : estudo sobre motivações a partir de uma perspectiva fenomenológica

Abstract

This work aims to contribute to discussions and analyzes about volunteering, especially about the reasons that lead people to engage in activities and volunteer groups. After a review of the available approaches in researches and academic works, it was possible to put a phenomenological lens on the subject. With this, it was tried to reveal how are constructed, throughout the biography, the reasons why the engagement to the volunteer. Through the biographical narrative methodology proposed by Fritz Schütze from the theoretical presuppositions of Alfred Schütz's phenomenology and systematized by Grabriele Rosenthal, five interviews were conducted with volunteers who works continuously and periodically in health institutions. To better define the reconstruction of the life narrated, we opted for the in-depth analysis of the life story narrated by the volunteer Lucas. After passing through the steps of analysis, it was possible to arrive at the relevance in Lucas' biography of values such as solidarity - strongly linked to family relationships and childhood experiences. In a moment of personal crisis, the interviewee opted for volunteering. Mapping Lucas' motivations - from the baggage of knowledge founded in the literature review and previous interviews - makes an effective contribution to a better understanding of the factors that involve and motivate the volunteer in his work.