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- Title
LAS INDIVIDUALIDADES POPULARES: Análisis de sectores urbanos en Chile
- Authors
Araujo, Kathya; Martuccelli, Danilo
- Abstract
The social sciences have usually downplayed the existence of forms of individuality in their analysis of popular classes and the popular, offering instead highly collectivist visions of popular classes and their members. Based on two qualitative, empirical studies conducted in Chile using semistructured interviews and group techniques, this article, without disregarding the commonality of experiences within these classes, discusses specific individualizing processes for the popular social group. Facing numerous adversities in a context of high positional instability and acute demands for hyperagency, members of popular urban sectors tend to affirm their individuality by relying on three dimensions: strength of character, personal abilities and sense of opportunity, and irreverent joy and sense of humor.
- Subjects
INDIVIDUALITY; CHILEAN social conditions; SOCIAL groups research; INDIVIDUALISM -- Social aspects; CHARACTER; SOCIAL psychology
- Publication
Latin American Research Review, 2015, Vol 50, Issue 2, p86
- ISSN
0023-8791
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/lar.2015.0022