Dinâmicas espaciais, identidades sociais e apropriação das habitações no Bairro 4 de Outubro, em Mumemo

Abstract

In this work, spatial dynamics, social identities and housing appropriation are analyzed in the neighborhood 4 de Outubro, in Mumemo. In the work, the qualitative and based on symbolic interactionism, we sought to understand how in the process of social interactions subjects take ownership of housing and build their identities and how housing communicates residents' identities and social status and structure their sociability. Data were collected through unstructured interviews and informal conversations with residents living in the neighborhood covered by the CONFHIC project and its surroundings where it was concluded that the remodeling cannot be seen only as a response to the imperatives of the growth of the household, as suggested by some literature, this explanation is simplistic and partial; housing should also be seen as one of the ways in which personal identity of the residents, they make possible the identifications and differentiations that the person socially, thus projecting the residents' self and, it is in this set of identifications and differentiations that the sociability of the residents must be perceived within the neighborhood as these are also substantiated by (and substantiate) these identifications and social differentiations