SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND THE SYMBOLIZATION OF SPACE

Abstract

There are metaphors that are reflected in our everyday language through a group of expressions that refers, in one way or another, to that metaphor. The aim of this paper is to analyze the representations that the inhabitants from two villas miseria located in José Hernández, Argentina, have of their neighborhood and of the city. Considering not the physical but the social distance implied in their everyday journey to the city center.