Consciousness, ideology and poverty: human sociability and social inequality / Consciência, ideologia e pobreza: sociabilidade humana e desigualdade social

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

This study comes from an established practice in a context marked by social inequality. The inclusion in a public school, located in Campinas, has been through by the project, From Risk to Protection", sponsored by CNPq. This is a project which one of the goals is to contribute to the empowerment of the networks of social support, with the focus children together in that institution school. In this context, from the professional performance in different areas (school, community and social assistance), we identified an understanding that blames the poor for the situation in which it finds itself. The objective of this work was to understand how social inequality influences the way of people perceive itself and the other, of different social segments. For the deepening of this analysis, interviews were conducted with two professionals of social assistance about the way that they perceive social inequality and lifes condition of families assisted by the government. In addition, interviews were made with two childrens parents (of that school) on how to understand their living conditions and the social inequality. The interviews were conducted regarding the procedures of ethical research, from a semi-structured roadmap that sought address some issues relevant to this search. An intensive analysis of interviews helped constructed categories of directions that sought portraying the sense that the participants brought in their discourses. The participants related their trajectories with their professional paths of life, also understood the social inequality from the differences in living conditions of a population (inequality of income, access to services such as education and health, condition of housing, expectation of life, etc.). The individual characteristics have been taken like one of the mains causes of social inequality. The lifes condition were perceived, by the participants, as result the presence or absence of a capable force inside, which were understood as enough to change the reality in which they live. The prospects for the future are limited to the prospects for immediate improvement of living conditions. The alternatives for improvement of living need of a structural analysis of reality, therefore, the participants were limited to the development of focal and individualized perspectives.

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consciousness and alienation. consciência e alienação social inequality classes sociais desigualdade social psicologia subjectivity social classes subjetividade

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