Por uma sociologia disposicionalista sobre a Guarda Municipal de Maceió/AL

Abstract

The object of analysis of the research that derives this dissertation are the disputes undertaken by symbolic capitals and social distinction / social prestige by the municipal guards within the subfield of the Municipal Guard of Maceió / AL. The Maceió Municipal Guard was created in 1989, with the purpose of protecting the public patrimony, goods and services of the municipality. We have as general objective of the research to understand the disputes of the agents for symbolic capital and for social distinction / social prestige in the interior Guarda Municipal de Maceió / AL. Thus, taking the Municipal Guard of Maceió as a subfield in the field of Public Security, we have the following specific objectives: a) Think GMM from the concept of subfield; b) Identify the symbolic capitals in dispute in the GMM subfield; c) Understand the dispositional factors of the GMM agents under study; d) Observe the practical sense of GMM agents; e) Understand the “game played” inside the GMM subfield. As a theoretical basis that supports the conception of this research is Pierre Bourdieu's Dispositional Sociology, for the study of the structures of the Maceió Municipal Guard subfield, its agents and their internal groups, from the concepts of field and subfield, habitus , symbolic capital, practical sense, illusio, as well as, in a punctual way, some contributions from Sociology in Individual Scale, by Bernard Lahire, as a theoretical suggestion to think about the trajectories and stocks and experiences of municipal guards. The methodological procedure that is applied in greater volume is the qualitative method. The agents' perceptions collected through semi-structured interviews applied to the subjects are analyzed. To present the profile of the agents participating in the research, we used the quantitative approach to a lesser extent. Thus, our first results in the context of the dynamics of disputes over social prestige and symbolic capital by the agents that make up the Municipal Guard of Maceió / AL, which even though unconscious or aware the agents that make up certain more operational groups of the 32 research participants 26 do not recognize the area in which they operate as an activity of social prestige.