The germination of contemporary brazilian entrepreneur: Neoliberalism seen according to the recent national context

Authors

  • Claudio Luis Penteado UFABC - Universidade Federal do ABC. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Humanas e Sociais (PPGCHS). São Bernardo do Campo - SP https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8279-3643
  • Brauner Geraldo Cruz Junior UFABC - Universidade Federal do ABC. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Humanas e Sociais (PPGCHS). São Bernardo do Campo - SP https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2105-5890

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52780/res.12815

Keywords:

Entrepreneurship, Neoliberalism, Lulism, Popular classes, New Brazilian Middle Class

Abstract

The article presents a discussion about the development ofa specific type of entrepreneur in contemporary Brazilian society. The social and economic advances of the Lulism's governments have enabled the income growth of a significant part of the Brazilian population which, by acquiring new ways of life, also saw their cultural references being transformed. Particularly, the picture of the entrepreneur became representative of the new Brazilian reality. In the context of a neoliberal society, where the companies and the norm of competition propose universal, the meaning of entrepreneurial symbolism has become even more latent. However, in contemporary Brazil there was a type of entrepreneur distinct from the one pictured by neoliberal discourse. To show these differences, eight trajectories of popular Brazilian entrepreneurs were mobilized, and in the end, important ambiguities and new categories of values and actions could be identified, constituting a characteristic entrepreneur of recent Brazil.

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Author Biography

Claudio Luis Penteado, UFABC - Universidade Federal do ABC. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Humanas e Sociais (PPGCHS). São Bernardo do Campo - SP

Possui graduação em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade de São Paulo (1997), mestrado em Ciências Sociais pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2001) e doutorado em Ciências Sociais pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2005). Atualmente é professor associado da Universidade Federal do ABC, atuando no programa de pós-graduação em Ciências Humanas e Sociais da UFABC.

Published

05/01/2021

How to Cite

PENTEADO, C. L.; CRUZ JUNIOR, B. G. The germination of contemporary brazilian entrepreneur: Neoliberalism seen according to the recent national context. Estudos de Sociologia, Araraquara, v. 25, n. 49, 2021. DOI: 10.52780/res.12815. Disponível em: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/estudos/article/view/12815. Acesso em: 18 jul. 2024.