Social pathologies in the great Metropolis of São Paulo: socio-spatial analysis of indicators in the boroughs

• Autor(a) principal: Perosa, Graziela Serroni
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Leite, Cristiane Kerches da Silva, Fonseca, Francisco César Pinto da, Lebaron, Frédéric
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/63587
• topic: social indicators; social pathologies; social space; public policy management; indicadores sociales; patologías sociales; espacio social; gestión de las políticas públicas; indicadores sociais; patologias sociais; espaço social; gestão de políticas públicas

The objective here is to discuss the importance of multi-determined analyses to the management of public policies within the scope of public administration. Using the Census of 2010, we look at the economic and social disparities that existed between the different boroughs of the City of São Paulo by adopting the principal component analysis method (PCA), based on dimensions derived from Social Health Index, an indicator that provides a more complex overview than the Human Development Index (HDI). The multi-determined analysis is based on the notion of “social space” (Bourdieu) and provides a valuable tool for diagnosing the impact of public policies, coordinating the multiple dimensions of social phenomena. We concluded that, by using the PCA method, it is possible to observe how the traditional indicators hide certain subtleties and differences with regard to inequalities between apparently homogeneous territories.