SHOPPING AND SOCIABILITY: A study of the shopping experience of women's clothing, accessories and makeup on Instagram and three scenarios in Natal
Consumption; City; Cyberculture; Urban Anthropology.
This dissertation aims to analyze women's purchases of clothing, accessories and makeup and how this segment relates to the urban and virtual space. The spaces observed were three scenarios in the city of Natal, capital of Rio Grande do Norte: Alecrim, Centro and Natal Shopping. In addition to these spaces was observed the digital platform Instagram. The methodology adopted is ethnography, initially, the research observed 6 women in a range of 20 to 40 years. The work is divided into two chapters and each chapter subdivided into six sessions. The first chapter deals with the relationship of clothes, accessories and makeup purchases with the Instagram platform, developing some aspects, among them the platform influence for this type of consumption, the appropriation by the stores of the platform using it as a showcase, Finally, how does Instagram act as a space for interaction where women can express their opinion about cosmetics. The second chapter deals with the relationship of urban space with shopping. In this chapter, aspects such as the particularities of Centro, Alecrim and Natal Shopping were developed, as well as these particularities interfere in the purchase of clothes, accessories and make-up producing sociality. In addition, the chapter discusses the strategies that the interlocutors used to move through the spaces and their classifications of clothing use according to the environment and the occasion.