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| Author(s): |
Sergio Henrique Rezende Crivelaro
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Geociências |
| Defense date: | 2008-08-21 |
| Examining board members: |
Claudete de Castro Silva Vitte;
Paulo de Martino Jannuzzi;
Arthur Magon Whitacker
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| Advisor: | Claudete de Castro Silva Vitte |
| Abstract | |
This work aims to study the daily life practices of the residents of small towns in its socio-spatial dimension, its relations of conviviality and sociability, their perception about quality of life and structuring of living space. This is a characterization and analysis of the daily of people living in small towns, as an attempt to identify and understand the spaces of sociability and their perception on the most characteristic that cause on the quality of life, such as politics, the economy, culture and environment. This, then, a study on the issue of quality of life in small towns, which wants to emphasize the aspects of social and conviviality as important determinants of the quality of life. It is the hypothesis that small municipalities maintain closer ties to conviviality and sociability, which gives lower socio-spatial inequalities and greater satisfaction on the part of the population reside in this place. The research was based on the single exploratory case study, and selected the city of Urupês, located in the northwestern Sao Paulo state. The same fits as a source of evidence to verify the hypothesis proposal. This is a city of Sao Paulo State with a population of approximately 12 thousand inhabitants (SEADE, 2007). It is located near to major cities such as São José do Rio Preto and Catanduva, which in turn are surrounded by small towns with similar characteristics between them. The evidence found can support the hypothesis that guided the work, that is, the population of Urupês presents as characteristic closer ties of sociability and conviviality. Also, socio-spatial inequalities are not dissimilar, ie, the population has good general conditions of life (represented mainly by access to basic needs, education, health and safety) and quality of life (understood in its aspects goals and subjective), especially the characteristic pointed synthesized by the population live on the satisfaction in this place. Finally, a contribution envisioned by this work is the possibility of extending the improvement of quality of life through public policies that consider the daily life, the lived space and features of sociability of the smaller towns, with their stays and transformations. (AU) | |