Projetos profissionais juvenis e a perspectiva de reprodução social na agricultura familiar

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2011

RESUMO

This study examines how the youth¿s professional projects in new generation of family farmers are prepared and the perspective of reproduction of the familiar mode of production. The sociological task is to specify the distinctive features of the situation of the youth in family farming, seeking to identify the elements considered in the preparation of their professional projects. The purposes of this study were: 1) to analyze the perspectives of the familiar mode of production starting the youth professional projects; 2) to identify the professional projects of young people associated in agricultural activities in family production units; 3) to identify the aspects considered by young people to assemble their professional projects including their attributed degree of importance; 4) to examine the impressions of young people about the agricultural work and the perspective of permanence in family farming. The conception of this study is initially based on the analysis of secondary data regarding family farming in Brazil, highlighting the studies that consider young farmers as unit of analysis. Subsequent qualitative data were produced by a case study of young farmers who lives in the city of Faxinal do Soturno, a municipality belonging to the fourth colony of Italian immigration in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. We performed 36 interviews, consisting of open questions, adopting a semi-structured script, which were examined by the method of content analysis. Among the results were observed a context marked by professional projects that breaks with the succession of the family farm work, converging to occupations that offers higher incomes and an elevated social status. The practice areas of these professions are concentrated in the urban labor market. Regarding the evaluations and representations present in the discourses of the youth, we identify contradictions related to preferences for residential location in relation to the desired location of professional practice. The negative ratings on agricultural work stand out, particularly on issues related to health, salubrity of work and conditions of aging in rural areas. Family and emotional issues, and also specific aspects of the juvenile condition, marked by the pursuit of autonomy and emancipation, permeate the professional projects in development and show a complex analytical framework, which amplify the explanatory factors of migration of youth.

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sociologia rural family agriculture agricultura familiar professional projects producao familiar social reproduction generational succession jovens projetos profissionais reprodução social trabalho agricola faxinal do soturno (rs)

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