Hiding the ‘1%’: sociocultural critic and logic

Abstract

Brazil is considered as one of the countries with the most uneven wealth distribution in the contemporary world. However, no specific social critic of material resources’ assimetry emerges in the country. The paper discusses some hypotheses to explain this apparently illogical reality. It responds fundamentally based on path dependency for critical affirmation of cultural resources’ assimetry and links it to the urgency of the main political groups which arose with the redemocratization of 1985 and whose political dispute dynamic follows a cultural logic. The cultural dispute encompass the potentially economic questions, because it installs itself in a durable manner as a metaphor system, endowed with “symbolic hardness”.