O consumo alimentar de famílias da nova classe trabalhadora brasileira

• Autor(a) principal: Campos, Antônio Guimarães
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• 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/19045
• topic: Nova classe trabalhadora; Nova classe média; Consumo alimentar; New working class; New middle class; Food consuption; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS

This work incorporates and discusses the issue of the recent changes in the Brazilian social structure, with the rise since 2003, a portion of the population to a supposed "new middle class". This discussion is needed and is relevant since consumption practices indicate social position, a new ethos of work and the lifestyle of people and groups in society. The goal is to understand the practices of food consumption in the residential families Village of Roses in Divinópolis (MG). The work started from two premises: (1) the increase in income and consumption capacity alone do not determine change of social class; (2) there were changes in food items consumed by the residential residents. Data collection occurred in two stages. The first phase of field research was quantitative, while in the second we used three qualitative techniques, namely: observation, interview and focus group. The theoretical basis we discuss the concept of social classes, the recent changes in the Brazilian social stratification we discuss, we discuss the issue of food consumption and presents some characteristics of the mining cuisine. Empirical research has confirmed the assumption that the residential residents have not changed their social class, because although there was increased income and consumption, their culture, their habits and lifestyle are still the same, that is, belong to a working class. The second assumption has not been confirmed as the residential residents maintained the same food culture with little change in their food purchasing intentions and changed only superficially consumption of some items. They still maintain high fat diet, consuming too much sugar, foods that contain too much salt and sodium and low consumption of fruits and vegetables. It concludes that although there has been improvement in the economic and social conditions of the residential families, your eating patterns are still the same and are deeply rooted in the past and that it is a working-class poor. The lifestyle and social status of residents is characteristic of the low income population, and they do not recognize themselves as "middle class" in terms of their life stories and maintain any hope of upward social mobility in the future