Herança inter e intrageracional: o negro na cidade de Pelotas

Abstract

Investigate and analyze the strategies and resources used by blacks for their insertion in the labor and social mobility in the city of Pelotas, in the post-Civil War and today is the goal of this work. This is an effort to understand the mechanisms and modalities for the conversion of social resources, education and economic actors they used for the construction of a career and the possible effects of racial discrimination that occurs in the trajectory of this population group. Understand how the use of socially acquired attributes the past generation has contributed to the rise of the current generation, through the inheritance between and within generations. As intergenerational inheritance understand the rise occurred within the family heritage and how we understand intra seizing opportunities offered by society through social and economic expansion of the country. The basic measure and variables presented in understanding the evolution in social structure and racial society in Pelotas is the socioeconomic status that combines education, occupation and income.