ABSTRACT: This research proposes to analyze the crisis in lifestyle and social relationships among residents of Itiguçu arisen out of a shift in their status - from small farm household to occupier resident – in face of the creation of the Ecological Station Juréia-Itatins (EEJI) and along three decades (1970-2000). The EEJI was not the only cause of this change: social exchanges between this nucleus and the modern urban life intensified due to its proximity to the city of Peruíbe, with its touristy waterfall. An objective field study of sexual division and underlying gender relationships, as well as their meanings was carried out. Directed Interviews and/or with free speech were applied in several periods between 1998 and 2000 to the Itinguçu community, located on the border of the Juréia-Itatins Ecological Station and the Peruíbe’s municipality. A comparison approach establishes differences and similarities between the researched universe and the studies accomplished by Queiroz (1960) and Moura (1978). The analysis concludes that the Itinguçu peasantry have not only their fulfillment and reproduction jeopardized, but also the social values guiding their universe, thus characterizing a state of social anomy.