Bem-estar e estratificação social no Brasil contemporâneo

Alan Araújo Freitas

doi:10.20336/rbs.634

Authors

Alan Araújo Freitas Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7489-2126

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.634

Keywords:

inequality, social welfare, school education, social stratification

Abstract

With the central objective of evaluating the process of social mobility in contemporary Brazil, two socioeconomic indicators were constructed that measure people's origin and destination, having as a basic difference from the classic studies the construction of indexes based on access to elementary social welfare. These indicators were evaluated simultaneously with the school education factor. So that the transmission of socioeconomic advantage in Brazil has a double path, (i) investment in formal education and (ii) direct transfer of socioeconomic welfare among relatives, the second factor with the highest significance. I interpret Brazil as a society that is not meritocratic, because the power of schooling to modify the outcomes of individuals in adulthood is statistically inferior to the effect of socioeconomic inheritance, assuming that there is a race among individuals for resources and that everything begins even before birth.

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Author Biography

Alan Araújo Freitas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Sociólogo. Doutor em Sociologia (UFRJ), Pós-Doutor em Ciências Sociais (UFJF)

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