Vidas secas: um olhar sociológico para além das evidências

Abstract

Humanity history has been affected by the imposition of one class on another. Arbitrariness and individuals' exposition to vexatious and embarrassing situations are remote things. They have come from oldest times and have perpetuated by generation to generation. The subtle and imperceptible way which such practices are reproduced in social structures makes that arbitrary attitudes be accepted and spread naturally. The symbolic power which reigns in the capitalist society contributes to the fragmentation of social classes, crystallizing a dominant force which prevails over the dominated. Thus, this article aims to analyze, through a literary research, some of Pierre Bourdieu's main concepts which are related to semantic area. It has as objective to explore, in a contextualized way, some of main topics elaborated by this sociologist.