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
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Auto-Retratos da Classe Média: Hierarquias de "Cultura" e Consumo em São Paulo
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title Auto-Retratos da Classe Média: Hierarquias de "Cultura" e Consumo em São Paulo
title_short Auto-Retratos da Classe Média: Hierarquias de "Cultura" e Consumo em São Paulo
title_full Auto-Retratos da Classe Média: Hierarquias de "Cultura" e Consumo em São Paulo
title_fullStr Auto-Retratos da Classe Média: Hierarquias de "Cultura" e Consumo em São Paulo
title_full_unstemmed Auto-Retratos da Classe Média: Hierarquias de "Cultura" e Consumo em São Paulo
title_sort auto-retratos da classe média: hierarquias de "cultura" e consumo em são paulo
publisher Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
series Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais
issn 0011-5258
1678-4588
publishDate 1998-01-01
description 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 relation to other major classes and to other middle-class sectors.
topic consumption
class
middle-class
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