Conceptual contributions on social practices in the street fair. The subject of social confidence

Abstract

The expansion of peddlers’ informal activities in the Great Buenos Aires region constitutes one of the expressions of the phenomenon of heterogeneity not  regulated the provision of consumer goods. Peddlers emerge as economic intermediaries who cater to the needs and demands of a population of consumers territorially segregated and largely disconnected from formal markets. It is in this sense that the present article aims to recover and indicate the central components that appear in this process of intermediation. A process that starts with the assumption that trust constitutes a central element when other forms that could act as guarantee of social interactions turn out to be weak, absent or not primary, as it is the case in Solano’s fair.