Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: PEDRO ARBOÉS NETO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : PEDRO ARBOÉS NETO
DATE: 17/07/2020
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência
TITLE:

"A GREATER PURPOSE": Ethnography of the Junior Enterprise Movement in the context of Rio Grande do Norte

KEY WORDS:

Junior Enterprise Movement. Entrepreneurship. Junior Enterprises. Sociology of morality. Civil society.

PAGES: 92
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Sociologia
SUMMARY:

This text presents the progress of a sociological research on values and moral ideals that constitute the performance of the Movimento Empresa Júnior (MEJ), having as empirical focus the state scenario of Rio Grande do Norte - the “MEJ Potiguar”. The Junior Enterprise Movement is constituted as a type of association that assumes the proposal of spreading junior companies in universities and promoting transformations in other institutions, characterizing itself as an actor of civil society. The research sought to understand the notions of morality shared and mobilized by students inserted in this movement, having as main focus the performance of the state federation RN Júnior and that of junior companies located at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). The research adopted a comprehensive and comparative analysis method in relation to the practices and their meanings attributed by the actors. The sources of analysis include documents produced by the federations Brasil Júnior and RN Júnior, ethnographic observations in four events and individual interviews with students. The main theoretical references include the notion of moral justification (Boltanski and Chiapello, 2009), the relationship between worldview and life ethics (Weber, 2004) and other approaches that are attentive to the connections between morality and agency (Joas, 2000; Taylor, 2007). It was possible to find recurrences and variations between moral categories of good life (or self-realization) and good society (or common good) that constitute the practices of the Junior Enterprise Movement and the adhesion of its members: ideas of authentic life and with “purpose”, of “being a leader”, articulated with concepts of “better universities”, “better companies” and a “better society”. The moral aspects of student adherence found in the research contribute to understanding how the Movimento Empresa Junior, as a civil society actor that adopts entrepreneurship as an agenda in the public sphere, seeks to promote universalization of its values and produce normative effects in institutions.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1081965 - CARLOS EDUARDO FREITAS
Externo ao Programa - 1031057 - LUCAS TRINDADE DA SILVA
Externa à Instituição - SIMONE MAGALHÃES BRITO - UFPB