Brazilians and foreigners

This paper discusses the formation of demarcated groups in the sociability of residents and workers in a neighborhood in the city of Chapecó. As a theoretical and conceptual source, we used the concept of Established and Outsiders, developed by Norbert Elias and Scotson (2000), in an attempt to interpret the forms of sociability established between residents from a sociological perspective. This includes assumptions about racial group prejudice, social stigma, status and power, in a qualitative ethnographic analysis of the sociability relationships of residents and workers in a city neighborhood. We understood that what was at stake were values of superiority, which are maintained and reproduced in a relationship of power and social status in which the dominant group, when it comes into contact with the other minority group, produces an elevated image of itself. This dynamic reveals prejudice, discrimination and racial stigmas towards the Outsiders.