“A vida atrás da porta” um estudo sobre a identidade social do cobrador de “chapa 100” na cidade de Maputo

Abstract

The present work intends to understand the “chapa 100” like a social space where there are produced social relations that contribute to the construction of the social identity of the conductor. The central argument of the study it is of that the type of social relations that prevails between the conductor and the users of “chapa 100” stipulates the construction and maintenance of his social identity in the affirmation of a social identity that is associated to him by "others". The use of the theory fenomenologic of Schutz and his fenomenology of the social relations allowed us to understand how the conductors survive the world where they are inserted concretely inside the social space where they practise their activity laboral, since there are interpreted and which inherent meenings in his conduct in that social way and in the relations with others. For his time, the preference for the use of the concept of Social Identity brought by Goffman, helped us to realize the mechanisms of handling, self-assertion and integration in the context of “chapa 100”. Resorting to a qualitative inquiry for the realization of our objectives, with the realization of interviews as instruments that made easy us the search of relevant informations of form to answer our investigations allied to a systematic observation what there granted to us the possibility to do the description of the important characteristics and relevant data in the process of the gathering of data. The conductors are obliged assuming an identity attributed by others like the form of defining his social integration inside the social space in which they are inserted and this affirmation determines the way like them they react and coexist with others trying to fit in a social world for them survived.