O consumo de alimentos sem agrotóxicos como fator de distinção social: o caso de Viçosa - MG

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Diene Ellen Tavares
• Orientador(a): Fiúza, Ana Louise de Carvalho
• Banca de defesa: Botelho, Maria Izabel Vieira , Barbosa, Míriam de Aguiar
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Viçosa
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Mestrado em Extensão Rural
• Departamento: Instituições sociais e desenvolvimento; Cultura, processos sociais e conhecimento
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Consumo; Modernidade; Estilo de vida
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Consumption; Lifestyle
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::EXTENSAO RURAL
• Link de acesso: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4084

This dissertation is on the consumption of foods without pesticides in Viçosa-MG. The consumption can be characterized by complex relationships between the created and recreated needs in the market, through which the changes of products acquire historical meanings socially built, frequently expressing social inequalities manifested in the lifestyle. The main objective of the work was to analyze the consumption of foods without pesticides as a lifestyle marker. The manifestation of the lifestyle happens through the consumption of certain goods, products and services, and also as they are used and socially exhibited. In that sense, the foods are in a privileged position, because they serve to product different meanings and values, that are expressed in the sociocultural dynamic of certain groups, through social relationships established among them. In the sphere of the consumption of foods, those without pesticides, for instance, seem to be linked to certain values as the health. However, this value is not the only one to give sense to this consumption type and, therefore, it doesn't become exhausted per itself. The foods without pesticides are not only nutritious products, but they are products whose meanings can be related to the access type, to the knowledge, the inclusion and exclusion of different social groups, and in the relationships between production and consumption. This distinction element was mapped in the places where different social layers are: the free market and the Mercado Igarapé in the city of Viçosa-MG.