Mobilidade social sem mobilidade espacial: “nova classe média” e transformações no espaço urbano em Campina Grande (PB).

Abstract

According to data of the research accomplished by Marcelo Cortês Neri (2008) in the year of 2010 Brazil passes to have a contingent of more than 50% of brazilians that belong to the class C, families with per capita income between R$ 291,00 and R$ 1.019,00, that had gone by social mobility of ascending character in the last ten years. Neri (2008) calls this new portion of the brazilian population of " new middle class ", concept that rebounded in several debates with relationship your pertinence and aplicabilidade. This work intends to analyze the paths of social mobility of families in neighborhoods of the President Médici and Cruzeiro, in the city of Campina Grande - PB, that became that that Neri calls “new middle class” with private emphasis in the social mobility without mobility in the urban space, looking for to verify along the path of social mobility of the families analyzed transformations in your social world that they are connected with the urban space, I expand the debate about social mobility for your repercussions in the city.