dc.contributor.author
Costa, Sérgio
dc.date.accessioned
2018-06-08T11:45:21Z
dc.date.available
2017-02-08T10:09:28.007Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/22053
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-25257
dc.description.abstract
The present paper draws on works that combine Marxist and Weberian traditions
of social structure analysis to interpret the contemporary Brazilian political
crisis as a distributive conflict involving four classes or strata (precariat,
outsiders, established, millionaires), defined using five determinant vectors
of social inequality: wealth, position, knowledge, selective association and
existential rights. The four classes or strata considered saw their wealth,
their existential rights, and their knowledge grow in the period between 2003
and 2013. However, in this period, the precariat and the outsiders ascended
significantly in their social position, while the established lost social
position to the extent that their power to exclude outsiders from social
spaces formerly reserved for their own usage diminished. The same logic
applies to selective associations with regard to gender and race, since during
the Workers’ Party (PT) administrations there was a decrease in the power of
men and whites to discriminate against women and blacks. This loss of position
in the hierarchies of class, gender and race fed the resentment of the
established against the PT government even in times when, in terms of wealth,
they experienced an ascendant trajectory. Starting in 2014, the picture
changed. The exacerbation of the economic crisis caused all of the strata,
especially the outsiders, to lose wealth. The established, though less
threatened by the outsiders (the most affected by the crisis), also
experienced social decline as the recession advanced. Finally, the
millionaires who had until then been gaining at all of the levels of
inequality with the PT governments, lost at least part of their selective
associations as the investigations into corruption advanced. It is precisely
when the millionaires began to lose that effective changes in favor of the
removal of the president began to occur.
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29 Seiten
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urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-fudocsseries000000000572-0
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urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-fudocsseries000000000114-6
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http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/refubium/rechtliches/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject.ddc
300 Sozialwissenschaften
dc.title
Millionaires, the Established, Outsiders and the Precariat
dc.title.subtitle
Social Structure and Political Crisis in Brazil
refubium.affiliation
Lateinamerika-Institut (LAI)
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99
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open access