Quality of life perception survey in Santo André/SP

Abstract

Each social reality is endowed with a own intelligibility, expressed in norms, interests collectives, values,
moral principles, in short, in the collective of individuals. Society's understanding proceeds from the seizure
of its constitutive order, which informs about its organization and its functioning. It is this order that points
to the plot of cohesion and disputes, cooperation and conflicts, which rise from the social fabric. Therefore,
to investigate social reality presupposes having a set order of representations, a structure of senses, of
meanings that circulate between their members, through different forms of language: this set is the social
imaginary (TEVES; 1992). This definition is one of the axes of applied research in July 2003, on the Perception
of Quality of Life for the Population, in Santo André - city of approximately 650 thousand inhabitants, with a economy today focused on services and commerce.