A confiança na venda e consumo de comida na via pública na cidade de Maputo

Abstract

This monograph untitled “Trust in the sale and consumption of street food in Maputo City’s downtown” aims to understand how the trust relations are constructed and influence in the decision taking for selling and consuming street foods. In the downtown of this city, it’s common to see cars parked on the walkways with food for sale inside them. One of the perspectives about this phenomenon shows that there are social relations of trust between the street food sellers and the consumers. Thus, we carried out this research with street food sellers and consumers in order to understand how are these trust relations constructed. Our data analysis allowed us to understand that street food sellers and consumers respect some social norms in which this economic activity is embedded. The trust relations are constructed based on the notion of risk, social networks, proximity between the point of sale and the workplace and the sellers and consumers economic capacity.