This article discusses and matches some contemporary theories on the origin and dynamics of social recognition, such as Charles Taylor's, and sociocultural approaches to the subject of inequality, such as Pierre Bourdieu's and Reinhard Kreckel's, in order to apply them, in a modified and productive way, to central matters of peripheral modernity, such as the undercitizenship and the naturalization of inequality. Its aim is to develop an alternative conception to the patrimonialist and personalist approaches to the subject, as well as to short-range and pragmatic perceptions, which are the result of the partition and fragmentation of knowledge, unconcerned about understanding a more embracing reality.
Peripheral modernity; social recognition; inequality; Brazilian social thought