Social exclusion and growth of Brazilian medium sized cities

Abstract

In Brazil, globalization has made the dimensions of social inequality more profound, creating processes, which we can denominate social exclusion. These processes are accompanied by urbanization, of which the importance in the understanding of the recent transformations, as well as, the elaboration of alternatives to contemporary problems, is decisive. The recent Brazilian urbanization has evidenced two dimensions of these more general processes: the global one, imposing standards of consumption and local one reproducing the social inequality, with new contents. The expansion of the average cities has disclosed much more of that the simple expansion of the inequalities or the social exclusion, evidences a discontinuity in the social experience of the daily, allied to those processes. Therefore, to analyze, since the basic act to live to amplest of coexisting in the city it demands the foundation of new paradigms.