Campinas elites: family relationships and social reproduction strategies

• Grant number: 25/04288-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: June 01, 2025
• End date: May 31, 2027
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Principal Investigator: Oswaldo Mario Serra Truzzi
• Grantee: Thiago Fernando Bonatti
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 23/11937-5 - Patterns of incorporation, social mobility and domination in Western São Paulo, 1850-1950, AP.TEM

Abstract

This project seeks to investigate the reproduction strategies of families from the Campinas elite in the period. Since the Empire, Campinas already had a consolidated oligarchic elite that, nevertheless, had to face several challenges in order to reproduce and transform itself. Among them, we can mention transition processes in: politics (between the monarchist and republican regimes), the productive base (from the sugar economy to the coffee economy and, subsequently, the affirmation as an important commercial and industrial pole), the rural labor regime (from slavery to "colonato"), the transportation system (the creation of an important railway node) and public health (sanitary crises at the end of the 19th century). Such transformations certainly had repercussions on all social segments, but our focus here will be to characterize and analyze the transformations of local economic and political elites. We intend to investigate, from an intergenerational perspective, to what extent such families: a) used endogamous strategies, b) proved to be permeable to the point of absorbing individuals from other social strata into their ranks, and c) expanded their presence by investing in other regions, following the coffee march, which is of great interest to the thematic project in focus.