As fronteiras nos supermercados de rede: um não-lugar

• Autor(a) principal: Torres, Desirê Blum Menezes
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/5275
• topic: Sociedade mestiça; Supermercado de rede; Espaço urbano; Wal-Mart (Firma); Condor Supermercados; Consumo (Economia); Curitiba, Regiao Metropolitana de, PR; Sociologia urbana -- Curitiba, PR; Mixed society; Supermarket network; Urban space; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::COMUNICACAO

This work complies with the intent of studying, in terms of language, the contrivances used by supermarket network to establish relationships and communication with the environment around them within the atmosphere of a mixed society. We compared two establishments in the city of Curitiba, Brazil: a national network and another pertaining to an offshore network. The assumption that edges the research is that, since this kind of supermarket displays the characteristic of non communication with external ambiances - unlike a local grocery store or a market place where the service is personalized and engaging - human relations in their environment are depthless, superficial or even nonexistent. In a society that tends towards the hybridization of typical composé of Latin American cities, in which the cultural blend is evident in urban areas, the understanding of how the supermarket network deals with this multiplicity and participates in several series to raise cultural leans towards expressive contrasts. The research is exploratory and explanatory, with empirical observation supported by photographic record. The theoretical and methodological framework is based on sources developed by Latour, Canevacci, Ferrara and Rennó, leading the analysis of urban culture from the point of view of the observation of the image. The concepts of fusion of culture and cultural studies, with the metaphors generated by the same provide the mechanisms of translational identified phenomena. The procedure of analysis is enriched by the contributions of Laplantine, Nous, Martín- Barbero, Gruzinski and Pinheiro. Another significant theoretical core under analysis was obtained in systems theory, with Vieira, Uexkull and Bunge. Urban space, center and periphery, mixed borders, consumer relations and the concept of non-place comes from the theoretical constructs of Certeau, Canevacci, Santos, Ferrara, Lotman, Delgado, Silva, Bauman, Underhill, Webber and Augé. The analysis of this study envisages the fact that the supermarket networks, domestic or offshore are not related to the individual as a customer, which is contradictory in societies that tend towards the hybridization of forms, such as Latin societies. At the national supermarket under analysis, were found embedded cultural series, but in an offshore network, these elements are not valued, as happens with the external aspects of local culture. Based on the systemic point of view and cultural studies, it can be said that these environments present themselves as non-places