Being a sociologist of the "rural world" at UNICAMP: very vivid memories

Abstract

In this first issue of Ceres' journal, I would like to reflect on my own experience as a professor and researcher at the IFCH at Unicamp, where, for 20 years, I actively participated in the master's degree in sociology and the doctorate in social sciences. I believe that the constitution of the thematic area of the doctorate, then called Agriculture and Agrarian Question, involving anthropologists and sociologists, resulted in the consolidation, in this university, of a field of reflection, typical of the social sciences, on the rural world. This field was characterized by privileging the understanding of the formation processes of the different categories of social subjects and their economic, social, political and cultural expressions, having as main assumption the heterogeneity of the rural world.