Dimensões da estratificação social: status e classe no Brasil contemporâneo

• Autor(a) principal: Machado, Weverthon Barbosa
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15534
• topic: Social stratification; Max Weber; Class; Status; Social interaction; Estratificação social; Max Weber; Classe; Status; Interação social; Estratificação social; Classes sociais; Interação social; Sociologia; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA

Class and status are the basic concepts underlying most sociological research on inequality, stratification and social mobility. In Max Weber s classic definition, they represent distinct, although correlated, dimensions of social stratification, that may have effects in different aspects of social life. This work explores the distinction between the class and status dimensions in contemporary Brazil, paying special attention to matters of operationalization of these concepts for purposes of empirical research. I use data from the Social Dimensions of Inequality survey (2008) to analyze, for the first time, the occupational structure of friendship in Brazil and estimate from it an occupational hierarchy that we regard as an indicator of status. Therefore, I take an approach of constructing a status scale that relies on the notion of social distance, rather than socioeconomic features of occupations or subjective evaluations of prestige. This scale is mainly associated with education, both on the individual and occupational levels. It is also highly correlated with more traditional status scales, but shows some discrepancies that are compatible with its substantive interpretation. The distinction between manual and non manual work seems to play a key role both on the rank ordering of occupational groups on the status scale and the relationship between status and social classes. The results generally support the idea that class and status grasp different aspects of the structure of inequality