O campo da moda e jovens estudantes trabalhadoras: da produção da crença à necessidade cultural

Abstract

The relationship that young student workers establish with fashion in clothes is discussed, given that there is a field (of fashion) with all its specificities and strategies which constructs values and belief in its goods. Both the classified and classifying goods as well as the hierarchical and hierarchizing goods create a cultural necessity and legitimize the dominant culture. This study is based on Bourdieu’s theory of practice. It analyses the meaning of family, school and work for these young workers when drawing up their values and choices (habitus), and recognizes in the type of work that they carry out (domestic help and sales women), the fundamental structure in the formation of their likes, their life style, and, especially, of the meaning that fashion in clothes acquires, depending on the place in the social strata where they find themselves.