Abstract
The article discusses some forms of symbolic violence that affect individuals during class migration that are marked by irreconcilable judgment criteria. Its sources are mainly thirty interviews with members of the upper classes of São Paulo - conducted within a larger research that collected etiquette manuals, press material, cultural critics and statistics. It analyses trajectories and attributes that lead to cultural shame, arguing that social ascension is not accompanied only by the deference given to those who experience upward mobility, but also by some of the most universal forms of social suffering. The latter can be the perception of low value attributed to oneself (and to one's family) in the universe of destination, the evocation of a negative cultural heritage, the internalization of dominant dispositions and simultaneous rejection of dominated dispositions.
Keywords:
class migration; cultural shame; symbolic violence; elites; São Paulo