Da falta ao conflito: reflexões sobre o debate de movimentos sociais e conflitos rurais a partir de análises quantitativas

Abstract

This dissertation is composed of three chapters that have two central common features: they perform different kinds of quantitative analyses, presenting unusual methods among the studies of social movements; and they treat, in a tangential or a straight way, problems related to the rural movements’ fights in Brazil, contradicting part of our sociology (including part of the theories that influenced the genesis of Brazilian social movements’ debate) that treated the rural, as well as its actors and fights, based on normative perspectives. Unlike this sociology of lack and delay, among other pejoratives aspects, the three chapters show as the recent sociology has treated the rural actors and movements, as well as these actors and movements headed, throughout history, many relevant political conflicts, despite of its biased coverage.