cooperativismo

Cooperação e tipos de cooperativismo no Brasil
Gilvando Sá Leitão Rios (Doutor em Sociologia, EHESS, Paris)
Sociólogo. Professor Adjunto do Departamento de Letras e Ciências Humanas da
Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, BRASIL [e-mail] Abstract
The need to the cooperation concept don't be thought abstractly, little worth having a cooperation supposed social process, considered separately, desincarnated, disconnected from a certain historical-social context. It deals about to consider the cooperation sense like an insertion in the economic process as a political project and not of cooperation like «psychological disposition». The need to a cooperativism outline that doesn't trouble about just in assure larger individual revenues for isolated plowmen, but that be based on social incoming, introducing the co-operativism in the own production. This economic cooperation presupposes a social-political change collective project with a convergent interests social base.
We have then three elements in this term cooperation understanding: productive process, political project, interests objective convergence. The co-operativism as a modernization family agriculture instrument and of mentalities qualitative change.
The objectivity and subjectivity matter in a cooperative organization. The cooperative entity presents a double nature, on one side it is a company, on the other hand however it deals about a company whose social connotation can't be a mere rhetorical reference, under pains an emptying of the term co-operativism.
Cooperative experiences historical phases and sociological profile in Brazil.

Cooperação como abstração e como construção social
O conceito de cooperação só tem utilidade se não for pensado abstratamente, isto é, pouca valia tem um suposto processo social de cooperação, considerado isoladamente, desencarnado, desvinculado de um determinado contexto histórico-social. Ocorre que é muito comum esse tipo de reflexão abstrata preceder em