“Então, eu fui à luta!”: repensando as representações e práticas econômicas de grupos populares a partir de uma trajetória de ascensão social

Abstract

This text raises questions that emerged while developing research on the\rprocess, currently underway in Brazil, in which popular groups’ attain\rincreased access to financial services and mechanisms and the credit supply\ravailable to low income people has expanded. Using one informant’s\rtrajectory as our guiding thread, we will take a critical look at some of the\roriginal premises of our research and attempt to put together new research\rhypotheses. The latter are meant to relativize differences and take a more\rnuanced approach to the borders which we had initially supposed could\rbe drawn around the logics that guide the economic and financial life of\rindividuals of popular classes and the principles that reign actions of the\ragents who provide them with financial services.\rKeywords: Economic Anthropology, Economic Sociology, credit and consumption,\rpopular classes and economic practices, social mobility.