Bolsa Família Program, "Creative Destruction" and new frontiers of the human

Abstract

In this paper, the intention is to make a map of discontinuities/ continuities that structure the relationships between beneficiary family farmers from Bolsa Família Program (PBF) and the State that produces and manages this program in addition to the symbolic-normative system which it has been part of. For the preparation of this map, the ways in which the farmer takes ownership of PBF will be considered. Also, there will by analysis on how it becomes a beneficiary and remakes, in the relationship towards the symbolic-normative system, the plots that constitutes its ordinary life, involving the structure of habits, social arrangements and the ways to produce territories. At work, researchers’ look focused, first, on the family unit and the framework in which relationships are shown in more dense forms. It extended along the paths of the family members (men and women, parents and children, adults, youth and children) in the production of goods and territories. For the production of information, documents and databases from the State provided clues, the immersion in the world of families ended up bringing qualified information. Based on the results of the study, it is possible to scale the size of the action of “creative destruction” of the State-producer/symbolic-normative system operator-in family agriculture from semi-arid of Bahia, in addition to the new place of the farmer, which resizes the border itself in social/human production.