Auto-Retratos da Classe Média: Hierarquias de "Cultura" e Consumo em São Paulo

Based on 17 months of field research in São Paulo (1993-94), this paper examines how middle-class adults in 42 surveyed households verbalized their class identity during the inflation crisis. It concludes that consumption (goods and practices) are foundational to their class definitions, both in rel...

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Main Author: O?Dougherty Maureen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 1998-01-01
Series:Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0011-52581998000200005