Social situation and professional aims of young family farmers in the Bahian Recôncavo

Situação juvenil e projetos profissionais de jovens agricultores familiares no Recôncavo da Bahia

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https://doi.org/10.36920/esa-v27n1-4

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The article presents an analysis of the juvenile situation among family farmers of the Bahian Recôncavo region (Brazil), seeking to explain the professional aims formulated by these young people. As young family farmers represent a specific social category due to socialization in family agricultural work, the study highlights the social situation of these young people, their disposition regarding generational succession end the possibilities of social reproduction of the family farming labor force. The study was based on an extensive and representative survey of the youthful population aged 15 to 29 years old employed in this activity and on an analytical model of youth situation structured along four thematic axes: a) material conditions; b) processes of socialization; c) social representations; and d) aims of youth. Both descriptive and multiple correspondence analyses were carried out. The results indicate that in the case studied the situation of youth in family farming is marked by low material autonomy even among young adults, by socializing practices in the processes of family agricultural work and unequal formal education between gender and age groups. It was concluded that these young people possess a strong homogeneity of common destiny in rupture with family agricultural work, among other factors, because this activity does not guarantee their material autonomy.
Keywords: young family farmers; youth situation; professional aims.

WEISHEIMER, Nilson. Situação juvenil e projetos profissionais de jovens agricultores familiares no Recôncavo da Bahia. Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura, v. 27, n. 1, p. 67-94, fev. 2019.

Submitted in august 2018.
Accepted in october 2018.

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  • Nilson Weisheimer, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB), Brasil

    PhD in Sociology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), PhD in Sociology from the University of São Paulo (USP), Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB) and leader of the research groups Nucleus of Studies in Family Farming and Rural Development (NEAF / UFRB) and Youth Social Observatory (OSJ / UFRB).
    E-mail: weisheimer@pq.cnpq.br
    http://lattes.cnpq.br/8189989792551322

fevereiro a maio de 2019

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2019-02-01

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Vol. 27 No. 1: Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura (february to may 2019)

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