"BRAZILIAN PEOPLE" IN THE EYES OF ELITES: REPERTOIRES AND SYMBOLIC BOUNDARIES OF INEQUALITY

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Autor(a) principal: Silva,Graziella Moraes
Data de Publicação: 2015
Outros Autores: López,Matias
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Sociologia & Antropologia
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2238-38752015000100157
Resumo: Abstract We analyze the cultural repertoires mobilized by elites to describe "Brazilian people." We rely on survey and in-depth interview data to capture how political, bureaucratic and business elites in Brazil frame poverty and inequality. Our data suggest that elites acknowledge poverty as a structural problem for the State to solve, but remain skeptical on the odds of actual solutions, indicating fatalistic perceptions that categorize the Brazilian poor as unorganized, passive, ignorant, and irrational. Moreover, in their definition of the poor, elites draw a symbolic boundary, separating an active sector (which includes the elites) and a passive one (the "people"). The paper also addresses the effects of such symbolic boundaries on the overall picture of Brazilian inequality.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv "BRAZILIAN PEOPLE" IN THE EYES OF ELITES: REPERTOIRES AND SYMBOLIC BOUNDARIES OF INEQUALITY
title "BRAZILIAN PEOPLE" IN THE EYES OF ELITES: REPERTOIRES AND SYMBOLIC BOUNDARIES OF INEQUALITY
spellingShingle "BRAZILIAN PEOPLE" IN THE EYES OF ELITES: REPERTOIRES AND SYMBOLIC BOUNDARIES OF INEQUALITY
Silva,Graziella Moraes
Inequality
Social distance
Elites
Symbolic boundaries
Poverty
title_short "BRAZILIAN PEOPLE" IN THE EYES OF ELITES: REPERTOIRES AND SYMBOLIC BOUNDARIES OF INEQUALITY
title_full "BRAZILIAN PEOPLE" IN THE EYES OF ELITES: REPERTOIRES AND SYMBOLIC BOUNDARIES OF INEQUALITY
title_fullStr "BRAZILIAN PEOPLE" IN THE EYES OF ELITES: REPERTOIRES AND SYMBOLIC BOUNDARIES OF INEQUALITY
title_full_unstemmed "BRAZILIAN PEOPLE" IN THE EYES OF ELITES: REPERTOIRES AND SYMBOLIC BOUNDARIES OF INEQUALITY
title_sort "BRAZILIAN PEOPLE" IN THE EYES OF ELITES: REPERTOIRES AND SYMBOLIC BOUNDARIES OF INEQUALITY
author Silva,Graziella Moraes
author_facet Silva,Graziella Moraes
López,Matias
author_role author
author2 López,Matias
author2_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Silva,Graziella Moraes
López,Matias
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Inequality
Social distance
Elites
Symbolic boundaries
Poverty
topic Inequality
Social distance
Elites
Symbolic boundaries
Poverty
description Abstract We analyze the cultural repertoires mobilized by elites to describe "Brazilian people." We rely on survey and in-depth interview data to capture how political, bureaucratic and business elites in Brazil frame poverty and inequality. Our data suggest that elites acknowledge poverty as a structural problem for the State to solve, but remain skeptical on the odds of actual solutions, indicating fatalistic perceptions that categorize the Brazilian poor as unorganized, passive, ignorant, and irrational. Moreover, in their definition of the poor, elites draw a symbolic boundary, separating an active sector (which includes the elites) and a passive one (the "people"). The paper also addresses the effects of such symbolic boundaries on the overall picture of Brazilian inequality.
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