Trabalho informal e redes sociais: os camelôs da Praça da Matriz no centro de Manaus

Abstract

This research is guided by three directional landmarks: the first one of them says respect to the knowledge of the reality that surrounds the social actors of the Square of the Matriz, in Manaus, whose main half of life it is extracted of informal occupations; as a second directional landmark is in the attempt to understand the institution of this space as rational choice and that it takes the knit of strong and weak bows between the proper individuals and the groups that if they form, the segment private and your representative organizations and the regulation of the public power on this configuration; finally, the third landmark inhabits in the identification, inside of the process of interaction of the actors, of we who appear forming a specific network and producing new dimensions for the theoretical boarding and in the práxis of a context of precarious and contradictory integration. To attempt as application the sketch the main theoretical arguments of the methodology of the analysis of social networks that we follow as landmark methodology of this research. Our focus is occupation developed for peddlers and all the unfolding of its interaction with other occupations that if configure in the scene of this camp of research. The possibility to argue with other segments of the society that the use of the public space for these occupations promotes of certain forms a disfigurament and confusion of the urban space will not be discarded. Finally, we brought for the critical and debate the figure of the microentrepreneur of the Square of the Matriz, in Manaus, and its social network while configuration of a knit of precariousness can very be reference by a discussion on its modus operanti of social inclusion in the social context establishment of modernity in the Brazilian society.