Uma consciência para o serviço: discursos sobre terra e propriedade nas cartilhas da Comissão Pastoral da Terra na década de 1980

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes "The Social Function of Ownership" in the primers of the Pastoral Land Commission from 1984 to 1989. The period was chosen because the debates in the Brazilian constituent assembly that generated the 1988 Constitution were significantly permeated by the " frame "of social rights. In this way, rural property and rural expropriations were the subject of disputes within the field of social rights and not other areas of law. We chose to look at this debate from the perspective of a progressive institution of the Catholic Church, the Pastoral Land Commission, seeking to understand the objectives of this religious organization in building a possible class consciousness among peasants and rural workers in the country. For this analysis, the following theoretical approaches were used: law as an instrument of social cohesion, according to Durkheim; the concept of "class consciousness" by E. P. Thompson; and Snow's concept of frames