Capital social e capital cultural na Biblioteca Comunitária Paulo Coelho da favela do Pavão-Pavãozinho/Cantagalo no Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This paper analyzes the generation of social capital, cultural capital and educational resources in Community Library Paulo Coelho, the Pavão- Pavãozinho/Cantagalo slum, in Rio de Janeiro. The capital is associated with strategies for acquiring resources through social interactions and libraries have features that can create these resources. With the theoretical basis of social capital the authors Pierre Bourdieu, James Coleman and Robert Putnam, a detailed literature review of library and reading was done. The hypothesis in this research is that a community that has a library, the civic model, can develop social capital and thereby provide their cultural capital and educational resources users. Our goal was to identify how it is created and how it distributes social capital by the Community Library Paulo Coelho, Complex Pavão- Pavãozinho/Cantagalo, in Rio de Janeiro. This research has a qualitative approach with a case study strategy. The methods and data collection techniques used in this work are interview, observation, document analysis(virtual) and, then the choice of the narratives as an analysis procedure. The results show that the Community Library Paulo Coelho generates social capital and the proceeds from it as cultural and educational capital. We conclude that the configuration of the Community Library Paulo Coelho favors this result, by having this library three configuration: school, children and community.