| Summary: | This article presents the results of a recent investigation on social networks of poor individuals who live in São Paulo, Brazil. The research analyzed the networks of 209 individuals in poverty who live in seven different locations of the city and are submitted to several degrees of urban segregation, as well as 30 middle-class individuals. This article presents the main characteristics of the networks, as well as explores their intense variability according to size, structure, urban integration and the sociability in which they are embedded, leading to the construction of typologies of networks and of sociabilities. The association between social segregation in space and networks is not direct, although suggests that the networks can really connect a part of the individuals who are spatially isolated by segregation, even if this effect impacts only a part of the individuals in poverty.
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