O conservadorismo underground aos “fofinhos” do mainstream: a construção social da realidade pelos Rappers da cidade e província de Maputo

Abstract

This work was about the study of the Process of Social Construction of Reality within the Rappers of Maputo City and Province. The objective of this work was to analyze the way the social reality was constructed by them. So, we adopted, as a theoretical basis, the social construction of reality by Peter Berger & Thomas Luckman (2003) articulating with the concepts of identity according to Faria & Sousa (2008) and Tilio (2009). Apart from that, a qualitative research, in this work, was carried out whose data were collected through semi- structured interviews with a total of thirteen (13) young people who constituted a conventional sample in which the interviewees were from different identity groups of the Hip-hop movement. The understanding of the data allowed us to verify that rappers build social reality through different universes of meaning. Hip-hop is a symbolic universe, whose totality of its members shares the typical social orders of this universe, but over the time, sub- universes of different meanings arise and that clash against the first, as well against each other. The rappers' meanings are not only marked historically by symbolic order established, but also by subjective meanings. Rappers compose different types of universes. Some of them in opposition of others, and the rest as intermediaries. The last ones are fixed between the undeground and mainstream poles producing a new type of identity. The meaning processes of rappers are characterized by resistance, rupture, or negotiation in relation to the distinct universe. Despite the generational and ideological differences between the sub- universes, the Hip-hop universe in its entirety aims to overcome the society problems.