Nojo de pobre: representações do popular e preconceito de classe

Abstract

This paper aims to think about shared spaces between social classes, specially after the economic raise of the popular classes in Brazil. One can notice that there is a kind of struggle from higher classes against the working classes’ presence at malls and airports, and sometimes this struggle becomes visible through “disgusting”. We are going to use as examples some cases from media contents and others that had mediatic visibility to try to think at the borders between classes, which exist beyond economic and symbolic aspects, but also in the hierarchical universe built by “disgusting”, what can highly segregate “superiors” from “inferiors” inside and outside media.