Bens culturais e práticas letradas mobilizadas por sujeitos de classe C.

Abstract

Owing to the class C nowadays represents more than half of the Brazilian population, this study aimed to investigate which literacy practices are mobilized when subjects of this class will have access to new cultural assets and what impacts/changes in their literacy practices are indicated by these subjects as a result of your access to cultural assets related to their economic rise in recent years. Thus, our general objective was to collect information about the implications/ changes in literacy practices of the subjects of the new middle class due to the access to these cultural assets. And, as a more specific objective, identify the cultural assets and the literacy practices mobilized by class C subjects that result from the increase of income of this class subjects. This is a research in Applied Linguistics descriptive and interpretive, qualitative character with quantitative data, whose corpus was constituted by two types of questionnaires, one for identification of research subjects answered by several people to form the sampling; and another related to cultural property that the subjects from the studied social class have access, which was answered only by the ten subjects focused in this study. The data were analyzed based on the new literacy studies (Barton & Hamilton, 2000; Gee, 1991; Kleiman, 1995; Street, 2003), focusing on the existence of multiple literacies and considering the concepts of literacy practices and literacies in social groups (Masagão, 2003, Souza, 2011). Therefore, the results of this investigation led us to conclude that the subjects from the new middle class have access to several cultural assets and mobilize various literacy practices whether or not institutionally recognized. We observed that the subjects of this study prioritize investment, firstly, in private school, the purchase of computer and internet access, thus, having access to websites, emails and social networks, both by traditional means, the computer, and by cell phone with data packet and, this way, mobilizing daily reading and writing practices. Secondly, they seek to invest in assets such as language courses, computer, going to the movies, rent movies, and others. In this way, we found that the class C subjects, here surveyed, with the access to these new cultural property, seem to mobilize many kinds of literacy, but the practice is still the school.