Participação e representação dos agricultores familiares no colegiado territorial do litoral norte de Alagoas

Abstract

This dissertation presents a study on the process of social participation and representation of farmers of the North Coast of Alagoas. This paper sought to discover how it was the participation of members in the Board Territorial period 2011-2013, in order to understand what factors possibly motivating the participation of representatives of farmers. The research used qualitative and quantitative methods. The first was used in the analysis of survey data, collected through structured interviews with representatives of the Territorial Board interviews as well as in monitoring meetings. The second was used to describe the economic reality of the region studied and the analysis of the data tabulated in the questionnaires. Therefore, based on the theory of Jürgen Habermas public space and social and political capital of Pierre Bourdieu and Robert Putnam, analyzed the college as a public space, consisting of social actors from the sphere of civil society and the state, which are imbued with social and political capital. These concepts mentioned converge to the analysis of the participation of family farmers as a social process, from the perspective of Norbert Elias. Finally, it can be said that the survey captured the subjective and objective order factors that motivated the participation of stakeholders, especially the farmers of the North Coast region of the state of Alagoas.