A chamada "nova classe média": cultura material, inclusão e distinção social

Yaccoub, Hilaine

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“…Seeking to understand how such interclass distinctions between the new and traditional middle classes are maintained and subverted, many Brazilian scholars have applied Bourdieu's (, 228) concepts of cultural capital and habitus —the embodiment of cultural capital as a series of class‐inflected dispositions. For example, anthropologists Hilaine Yaccoub () and Eliana Vicente () have used Bourdieu to ethnographically examine how taste and consumption shape the lives and class positions of the previously poor in Rio de Janeiro, while sociologist Jessé de Souza () utilizes Bourdieu to critique the economistic character of the new‐middle‐class thesis. Our own data affirm the importance of consumption as a marker of ascension.…”

Section: What Is a Middle Class?mentioning

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“…These analysts further stress how Neri's framework obscures—and depoliticizes—long‐standing categories such as “working class” and the colloquial classe popular . A second line of critique builds on Bourdieu and argues that the supposed new middle class has neither the habitus of the traditional middle class nor its cultural capital (Souza ; Yaccoub ). A third line of critique has highlighted how Neri's economic definition of the “new middle class” masks the fact that increases in income and consumption have not translated into a reduction of structural inequality and cannot therefore be said to have ushered in a new class order (Esteves ; Figueiredo Sobrinho ; Vicente ).…”

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“…Reflecting the strong influence of Bourdieu among Brazilian anthropologists, many scholars highlight the importance of consumption as a marker of socioeconomic ascension (Chiosini et al ; Rocha and Rocha ; Vicente ; Yaccoub ). In Rio de Janeiro, anthropologists Yaccoub () and Vicente () both show how consumer items, including remodeled kitchens with stainless steel appliances, serve as a means of asserting status.…”

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Naming Brazil's previously poor: “New middle class” as an economic, political, and experiential category

Klein

Mitchell

Junge

2018

Economic Anthropology

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The early years of the twenty-first century were historic for socioeconomic relations in Brazil. While long known for stark socioeconomic inequality, the nation became internationally celebrated for its economic growth and successful poverty-reduction initiatives, which together propelled some 35 million "previously poor" Brazilians into what became called a "new middle class." The apparent rise of this "new" class has generated contentious debate and a range of social science studies in Brazil; yet this literature is little known in the Anglophone academic world. While some have interpreted this demographic transformation as an expansion of the existing middle class, others have questioned the utility of income-or consumption-based criteria for the category "middle class." Drawing from ongoing research in working-class neighborhoods in three Brazilian cities (Recife, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo), this article reviews and engages these important debates, examines the extent to which Brazil's class structure has changed, and presents a conceptual framework for understanding experiences of socioeconomic mobility and class subjectivities among Brazil's "previously poor."Keywords Middle Class; Class Structure; Socioeconomic Mobility; BrazilThe middle class is necessarily an ill-defined entity. This does not reflect a lack of theoretical penetration but rather the character of reality.- Wacquant (1991, 57) In 2008, as Brazilians were becoming aware of their country's rising international profile and decreasing poverty, economist Marcelo Neri (2008, 43) announced the arrival of a "new middle class," with millions of once-poor people joining its ranks each year. Neri argued that with these shifts, Brazil had become a middle-class nation. Brazil is, of course, renowned for brutal inequality-so much so that "Brazilification" is often used as shorthand for widening inequality elsewhere. So the idea of a middle-class nation arrived as both a revelation and a controversy. Politicians and marketers took up the catchphrase "new middle class" even as critics assailed its validity. This debate continues today, even in the changed context of a severe economic downturn that began in 2013, the impeachment of Workers' Party (PT) president Dilma Rousseff in 2016, and the subsequent rollback of many of the PT social policies that supported poverty reduction during the party's years in office . The current crisis stands in contrast to the optimistic years preceding it, when Brazil's economic rise and the "new middle class"-dominated headlines. Our historical distance from those brighter times gives us, perhaps, enough remove to consider the implications of Brazilian debates on the "new middle class" and to evaluate their significance for anthropological theory and ethnography.We begin with an account of the profound socioeconomic transformations that took place in Brazil during the first decade of the twenty-first century. We then review how Marx, Weber, and Bourdieu have influenced the

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Naming Brazil's previously poor: “New middle class” as an economic, political, and experiential category

Klein

Mitchell

Junge

2018

Economic Anthropology

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“…A busca por economia de tempo fomenta modificações nos modos tradicionais de preparo das refeições, sendo potencializada por meio do aumento no consumo de bens duráveis viabilizando o uso de equipamentos como, por exemplo, o forno de micro-ondas nas camadas populares 28 .…”

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Concepções sobre práticas alimentares em mulheres de camadas populares no Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil: transformações e ressignificações

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Czeresnia

Vargas

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Interface (Botucatu)

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The present qualitative study concerns the food practice concepts and meanings of lower-class overweight women. Issues associated with social and cultural conditions in urban areas are part of a transformation process marked by lack of time and the quest of convenience. Ultra-processed food, athough seen as unnecessary in the past are nowadays considered a basic staple by the lower class in Rio de Janeiro. This new reality confronts the contemporary discourse about healthy eating, which is focused on the demand for consuming "healthier" products. Such scenario demands the informants a constant reinterpretation about the act of "eating", oscillating between pleasure and guilt. The current study discusses the need of understanding these expressions based on a restricted framework of possibilities determined by micro and macrosocial aspects. These aspects shape the contemporary mode of food production and distribution in our society.

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“…Dessa forma, o economista Marcelo Neri (2008, p. 5) aponta que a classe C "é a imagem mais próxima da sociedade brasileira". (YACCOUB, 2011) Entretanto para o sociólogo Jessé de Souza [...] Sabíamos que para alcançar os objetivos propostos no Projeto e os resultados esperados, seria necessário voltarmos o olhar para as práticas desenvolvidas em sala de aula e as relações existentes entre a equipe escolar e os alunos, a qualidade da intermediação exercida por professores, equipe gestora e funcionários dentro e fora das salas de aula.…”

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Alfabetização e ética: um trabalho interdisciplinar de formação docente e discente

Carneiro

2016

Hist. Ensino

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________________________________________________________________ RESUMO: O trabalho sobre a temática da Ética proposto pelos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (1997) é essencial para o desenvolvimento da autonomia de crianças e adolescentes.Entretanto, as dificuldades de aprendizagem principalmente no sistema público de educação, impõem práticas educativas focadas na leitura, escrita e cálculos básicos, em detrimento dos problemas da realidade das comunidades escolares. Quando as escolas decidem desenvolver projetos sobre as relações de desrespeito e o tipo de imagem que as crianças constroem de si e do "outro", a área de História passa a assumir o trabalho de formação. Este artigo pretende discutir uma experiência vivenciada por professores e alunos dos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental, na qual a alfabetização e a ética constituíram-se como eixos para o desenvolvimento de um projeto de formação/ação docente e discente. Palavras-chaves:Alfabetização e ética. Projeto especial de ação. Formação docente e discente. Práticas interdisciplinares. _______________________________________________________________ABSTRACT: Working about the theme of Ethics proposed by the National Curriculum Standards (1997) is essential for the development of autonomy of children and adolescents. However, learning difficulties especially in the public education system, impose educational practices focused on reading, writing and basic calculations at the expense of the reality of the problems of school communities. When schools decide to develop projects on the relations of disrespect and the type of image that children build themselves and the "other", the History area now takes on the job training. This paper discusses an experience lived by teachers and students of the early years of elementary school, in which literacy and ethics were constituted as axes for the development of a project training/teaching activities and students.

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A chamada "nova classe média": cultura material, inclusão e distinção social

Cited by 43 publications

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Naming Brazil's previously poor: “New middle class” as an economic, political, and experiential category

Naming Brazil's previously poor: “New middle class” as an economic, political, and experiential category

Concepções sobre práticas alimentares em mulheres de camadas populares no Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil: transformações e ressignificações

Alfabetização e ética: um trabalho interdisciplinar de formação docente e discente

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