Morfologia urbana e distribuição de grupos sociais: rivalidades e divisões espaciais em São João Nepomuceno / MG

Abstract

This article has the aim to reveal the ways of distribution of social groups in São João Nepomuceno, a city of Minas Gerais state, and it has as its basis an anthropological study already made about this city, and that expose, a,mong other elements, the tradition of creating rival associations into several aspects of its social life, such as the carnival and the soccer. This work intends to complete this existing study, but with a new focus in spatiality. What is proposed here is that, in addition to the already known and explored social aspects, other elements, such as income, ethnicity and religion, witnessed mostly from its urban space, can also be presented as understanding tools of this society and its social dynamics.