doctoralThesis
Os empoderados da agricultura familiar: capital social nos territórios do seridó e do sertão do Apodi/RN
Fecha
2013-06-10Registro en:
VIEIRA, Denes Dantas. Os empoderados da agricultura familiar: capital social nos territórios do seridó e do sertão do Apodi/RN. 2013. 228 f. Tese (Doutorado em Desenvolvimento Regional; Cultura e Representações) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2013.
Autor
Vieira, Denes Dantas
Resumen
The study of social practices aims to overcome the theoretical dichotomies that insist
on separating the individual from the social structures and vice versa. In this sense,
the debate between objectivism and subjectivism in the construction of social reality
still has occupied much time and reflection of various scholars of the humanities.
Pierre Bourdieu has extensive work that seeks to advance in relation to the
theoretical framework of traditional sociological explanations. Bourdieu`s approach
regarding social practices is considered by some researchers as a synthesis of
classical theories and by others as an attempt of complexify contemporary studies on
the significance of social life. This thesis sharesthis effort to understand the social
practices of agents, aiming to analyze the strategies of social and political leaders of
family farming in the territories of Seridó and Apodi in Rio Grande do Norte, and it
has as reference the theoretical and methodological concepts of habitus, field and
capital, in Bourdieu. Therefore, we studied the trajectories of social leaders, here
called agents as family farming in the two locations in Rio Grande do Norte. As
techniques and procedures of the study, we resortedto semi-structured interviews,
observations, participation in events and other researches. In conclusion, this thesis
gives an account of the construction of two different relational fields for the activities
of agents of family farming in the territories of Seridó and Apodi. Although the
relational fields in the territories have been structured under the same prevailing
institutions, which are: church, union and political party, the social practice of agents
shows itself from social position and political variety. Even with the similarities and
differences identified and analyzed in different fields of construction, the social
relations of the agents in the territories result in the construction of gated
communities, the social capital that is the substrate which the agents called
empowered .