Para uma sociologia do dinheiro: investigações sobre o habitus econômico de classe

Abstract

The main goal of this thesis is to reconnect economic sociology to its cultural and symbolic factors. In consonance to this hypothesis, economic practices are taken as the main theoretical and empirical tool in order to contribute to a theory internal differentiation of these practices, whilst some social classes develop a rational and planned behavior with economic capital. In addition to that, the concept of labor is taken as social activity that constitutes qualitative socioeconomic conditions experienced on time in the sense that they both permit and constrain the repartition of different levels of the economic action. Two authors were very important: Pierre Bourdieu and Georg Simmel. Pierre Bourdieu enables the investigation on time structures of the economic agent, whereas Simmel scrutinizes the roll of money in modernity.