The legitimate frame of reference in domestic architecture and decoration: "good manners of living" in Paris and São Paulo in the XXI century.

• Grant number: 16/00875-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: July 01, 2016
• End date: June 30, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Principal Investigator: Carolina Martins Pulici
• Grantee: Carolina Martins Pulici
• Host Investigator: Julien Duval
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

Abstract

This project aims to compare the prescriptive repertories deployed by different specialists in the struggle for the legitimate definition of domestic architecture, and is part of a broader research on the social genesis of preferences though the analysis of the architectural appreciation schemes. The comparison of the prescriptions relating to "good manners of living" in the cities of Paris and São Paulo attempts to grasp the symbolic hierarchy of goods and their ways of appropriation in housing, and to evaluate whether the discourses on the prestigious domestic interiors make abstraction of the conditions of existence in which these decoration standards of the dwelling can be effectively accomplished. This first stage of the wider comparative research will be based mainly (but not exclusively) in written sources concerning ornamentation and distribution of residential space published in France and Brazil in the XXI century. Altogether, the study intends to contribute to a comparative sociology of likes and dislikes, examined according to the inclusion and exclusion processes that are based on aesthetical intolerance.