Social class and inequality production: a class culturalist analysis

Eloisio Moulin de Souza
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21529/RECADM.2020008

Abstract

This article analyzes the relevance of social class as a social marker for management students and how the students define social class, using for this the culturalist analysis approach of class. In order to do so, questionnaires were carried out and focus groups were conducted with a semi-structured script of interviews among undergraduate students of management, and the data produced were analyzed through content analysis. It is concluded that, although authors declared class death as a social marker, class is a social marker of identity in the studied context, thus producing hierarchies and economic, cultural and social inequalities. In a culturalist analysis, management students define class considering both objective and subjective aspects, declaring the relevance of class in less developed societies and evidencing the high level of social stratification present in Brazilian society.


Keywords

social class; social marker; inequalities; management students; class cultural approach

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