GROUP PROCESSES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF M ARTINBARO,IGNACIO - CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT 6 CONCRETE CASES

The present article recovers the Martin-Barb proposal with respect to genesis and maintenance of the groups by focusing on group identity, a ctivity, and power processes which pervade their relations. Conditions , characteristics, and relations established in six groups, on natural context, in the city of Sao Paulo - Brazil, are described: group of s enior citizens, group of women, group of power company workers, group of volunteer teachers, group of people with disabilities, and group of children. The processes relative to identity building in these groups are analyzed, as well as the individual and social meaning of the act ivities within each group, and the kind of resources they employ to ex ert Fewer internally and externally.