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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Language: | English |
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Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
1998-01-01
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Series: | Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0011-52581998000200005 |