The city seen by the inhabitants of the countryside of Araponga/MG: na analysis of social representations through Alceste software

Abstract: The relationship between the countryside and the city has been changing markedly, especially since the last two decades of the 20th century. The present article aimed to analyze how the rural population of a small coffee - growing municipality located in the Zona da Mata, Minas Gerais, manifested through its representations of “countryside” and “city” the approximations and differences about the way of life in both spaces. This study had a cross-sectional character and was carried out through the application of a semi-structured questionnaire, with a representative sample of the population, composed by 94 rural households. In the application of the questionnaire, it was used the technique of mixing questions that stimulated quick and spontaneous responses, with others of a more reflective nature. Based on the answers obtained, the corpus was prepared for the quantitative analysis of textual data, in Alceste software. The results concerning the spontaneous and reflexive representations that the rural ones expressed about the “city” and the “countryside” revealed a social vision of the world marked by the perspective of belonging to the city dynamics, combined with the rurality marks constituting his identity.摘要：城乡关系始终处于显著演变之中，尤以20世纪最后二十年为甚。本文旨在分析位于巴西米纳斯吉拉斯州达马塔地区（Zona da Mata）的一座小型咖啡种植自治市，其农村人口如何通过对“乡村”与“城市”的意象表征，展现二者在生活方式层面的趋同与差异。本研究为横断面研究，采用半结构化问卷开展调研，纳入94户农村家庭作为具有人群代表性的样本。问卷设计融合两类问题：一类用于激发快速自发的作答，另一类则更具反思属性。基于收集到的调研答复，研究团队构建了语料库，并依托Alceste软件开展文本数据的量化分析。针对农村群体所表达的关于“城市”与“乡村”的自发及反思性表征的分析结果显示，其社会世界观兼具融入城市发展进程的视角，同时以乡村特质作为身份建构的核心构成要素。