Discrimination, degradation and biologicism

the treatment given to the last rungs of the working class in Córdoba, Argentina

Abstract

This article, product of an ethonographic work, proposes to point out the degrading evaluations and prevailing discriminatory practices on the most depressed rungs of the working class in Córdoba, Argentina. Attending to such purpose demanded to enter into the spaces in which this sector of working class lives –or lives badly-: the villas. After the field work can be concluded that the most impoverished bias of wage-eaning class, which is in material conditions of existence characterized by informality, job insecurity and unemployment, whose correlate are highly precarious residences, with irregular access, limited, and without access, to water, electricity and gas services, respectively, in overcrowded conditions and with location hazards, it is stigmatized and discriminated. Likewise, beyond recognition, of the perception of discriminatory practices by those discriminated against, both low estimation and discrimination have the functionality of legitimizing socially the miserable conditions of live to which this portion of the population is subject. In this work, part of results obtained in a doctorate research is presented, which has as is theme the degraded existence5 and the diacritic biologicist stigma in the city of Cordoba, Argentina.