Sociability and urban life

1. Social networking and urban life.

The project is divided into two analytic dimensions. The first aims to comparatively analyze social integration mechanisms produced by primary and associative networking, such as religious, familial, neighborhood relations, civil associations and how they intersect and share feedback.
The hypothesis is that these connections are conditioned by social inequality, as is the case for certain migration processes. However, they can also act as virtuous mechanisms to attenuate social vulnerability in that, in additions to the benefits they bring, these connections also serve as a mechanism to access the labor market and public policies.
The second dimension looks at how people organize their urban experience based on cultural capital, social practices, their network of relationships, uses of the city and the symbolic markers that structure their space. In other words, we will explore how the dynamics of the metropolis interfere specifically on the day-to-day lives of different social groups. In some dimensions the investigation will focus more specifically on the transformations of the religious group, primarily in major urban centers.

Coordinator: Ronaldo de Almeida

Research team: Daniel de Lucca, Maurício Fiore e Tiarajú D'Andrea