Lógicas socioculturais e estratégias produtivas no assentamento Menina dos Olhos dos Sem-Terra

Abstract

This work consists of a research that analyzes the underlying sociocultural logics to the productive strategies developed by the landless farmers settled in the rural Settlement called Ceres, RS. That Settlement was formed in the end of 1996 and it received landless farm workers of several areas and municipal districts of Rio Grande do Sul, having different paths and acquired social experiences in the different busy social positions in the structure of relationships of the society. Hence the occupation of the territory and the social-historical development of that state have conformed certain social positions to the poor rural workers as small farmers, temporary and permanent workers, millers, lacemakers, among other generating potentially different principles of action, behaviors, codes and operational modalities that provide a group of knowledge, creeds and a certain practical sense, working as social habitus. In this sense, this sociocultural heterogeneity tends to compose the social processes as much of the camps as of the rural settlements and it can be expressed by the different situations that took the rural workers to the fight for the land, for the different objectives related to the ownership of a lot, as well as for the differentiated projects and future dreams elaborated among those individuals. Then, when in the establishment of awareness, knowledge, projects and future dreams which have been built along the social paths tend to make present and updated face of the found circumstances regarding the differential of powers among the different social agents of the local and regional environment. Like this, the cultivations, handlings and several forms of productive occupation of the land lots for the farmer-seated can also represent that social-cultural heterogeneity forged by the socialhistorical process. In that sense, the research classified the farmer-seated in three productive systems considered as diversified, soy-milk, and soy farmers through a survey questionnaire and it was opted for living the daily of them starting from an interview of a pre-selected sample of seated families. The analysis of the data and information allow considering that the interactions and reactions from those environments do not occur in the same way by the group of the farmer-seated in the establishment of the strategies of social reproduction. The existence of three productive systems in the Settlement tends to correspond to the sociocultural internal factors along the social paths. As a result, the significances attributed to the differentiated forms of productive occupation of the land lots reveal desires and life projects longed for and also differentiated and such objectives are believed to be possible to achieve in the Settlement. .