Estratégias de aquisição do capital literário por estudantes de letras originários de camadas populares

Abstract

The main objective of this report research is to apprehend the strategies for literary capital acquisition to Letters students from lower classes under the sociological perspective of Pierre Bourdieu, to whom the lower classes are destined to the school failure, because the school transmits the dominant cultural capital which is scarce to them. Therefore, the subject of this study are 56 students from the 6th semester of a public college in São Paulo (Group 1) and 36 students in the same semester from a private college located in the city of Santos (Group 2). The specifics objectives are: 1) characterize the social economic and cultural profile in the last year; 2) raise the strategies of appropriation to the literary capital in the path before college and in the same schedule; 3) compare this student improvement and the number of abdication in his group; 4) verify how much the Letters course interferes in his cultural activities today. The main theoretical supports in the sociological area are Pierre Bourdieu, Bernard Lahire and Bernard Charlot. In the reading area, the main reference is Antonio Augusto Gomes Batista. We claim to investigate in which way (which reading and strategies) these students used to obtain in their academic life this elite cultural capital (literary and school), where we presume, they had a little or none contact: literature is the lecture that composes the curricular grade in this course, and we suppose that the student use some strategies to acquit this capital, but the acquisition of the literary capital is only superficial. This has been partially proved. For this, they realized a quantitative and qualitative data collect, making applied tests for both groups and interviews with two students from Group 1, beyond consulting the course secretary of the college to obtain how many students got off. The results show that Group 1 belongs to middle and lower classes and Group 2 to the lower classes. This report reveals that the ones that prefer public college suffers a super selection, before and during the course, and at this point they have more cultural capital than the group of private college. The literary lecture is connected to some singularities in the students life history that distinguish their relationship to pairs of their classes and allows them to reach a high social level