The Amazon Rural Economy and the Social Way Cooperative

Abstract

This study is an analysis of the theme of Brazilian Social Economy in the field of sociology of work. It presents the cooperativism like a solidarity model of social economy with emphasis to the work’s cooperatives. Discusses the ontology of the work as a source of social being in which the worker of today that creates and recreates them as construct in the context of survival strategy. It is a more extensive research carried out at the Federal University of Amazonas and presents a lot of results. The search’s field is was conducted in the Village called Nossa Senhora de Aparecida, localized in district of Coari, localized in Amazon State-Brazil, with workers of a rural cooperative that produces food to be purchased by public authorities of the District. Among the findings it is clear that the rural workers of the Amazon are capable of remake their way survival through the solidarity economy, even if under the nexus of capitalists relations. It Can say, finally, that the Social Economy presents itself as an economic activity promising and capable of responding to social development and environmentally sustainable.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n14p52