O processo de institucionaliza??o da soja transg?nica no Brasil nos anos de 2003 e 2005: a partir da perspectiva das redes sociais

• Autor(a) principal: Castro, Biancca Scarpeline de
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRRJ
• Texto Completo: https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/tede/619
• topic: institucionaliza??o; soja transg?nica; redes sociais; institutionalization; transgenic soy; social networks; Sociologia

This master's degree dissertation analyzes the process of institutionalization of transgenic soy in Brazil, starting from the perspective of social networks, specifically in the years of 2003 and 2005. For such an intention, a methodological chapter was accomplished, in which the focus of nets, its appearance in the Economical Sociology, its different types and properties and its uses in the present research were explained. Initially, the context that the transgenic soy was diffused at the country was expose, as in relation to the general panorama of its conventional cultivation, as in the historical, political, juridical and social context which those discussions and disputes about that genetically modified organism have begun. The analyses of social nets for the years of 2003 (chapter III) and 2005 (chapter IV), have been filled with detailed reports of the average current situation of the subject and, starting from these, the actors that have been part of the process were defined and pointed, and being grouped according to their common characteristics. Having the definition of actors and their relationships, it was possible to accomplish the construction and the analysis of the social net illustration and some of their properties could be applied. By its turn, the analyses of the transgenic soy institutionalization were accomplished based on the institutionalist theory, starting from the application of the social nets methodology. Two hypotheses were confirmed with the research: The first has ratified the usefulness and relevance of social nets methodology to analyze institutionalization processes, since it does not privilege agency to structure. The second has pointed that the deliberations about the use and diffusion of the transgenic soy were economical and political deliberations, in spite of involving studies and scientific decisions. In the research, it was concluded that the institutionalization studied in this dissertation has not finished in the formal and informal processes observed, due to the lack of government structure to accomplish the legislation about the subject, to its ignorance by a great part of the population and to the refusal of another portion of this population, who are against its production and commercialization. This way, the process of transgenic soy institutionalization, in spite of its legalization has happened, is still in course.