O conhecimento dos Direitos Sociais por catadores autônomos de materiais recicláveis e reutilizáveis das ruas conteinerizadas de Pelotas/RS

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the understanding of Social Rights and their knowledge on the part of autonomous waste pickers of recyclable and reusable materials in the streets of the city of Pelotas/RS. There are members of our social body who are considered non-existent, due to poverty or the profession that they exercise. This is the case of the autonomous waste pickers of recyclable and reusable materials that, despite playing an important role in protecting the environment, do not benefit from constitutional rights and guarantees. Therefore, initially, the research investigates the Theory of Social Rights. In sequence, it examines the production of non-existences, both of metonymic rationality and of proleptic rationality, according to Boaventura de Souza Santos (2002) applied to these workers. The knowledge of these rights, as well as the feeling of inferiority caused by these rationalities, counts on the contribution of empirical research. The research starts from the premise that the positivization of Social Rights, in the Brazilian legal system, does not guarantee, by itself, the knowledge of these rights and their enjoyment by the subjects. Thus, there is a need for subjects to know their rights, so that they can enjoy or claim them. From this perspective, it is intended to answer the following research problem: how to establish the knowledge, exercise and effectiveness of Social Rights for the autonomous waste pickers of recyclable and reusable materials on the streets of the city of Pelotas/RS, in the context of cosmopolitan reason? From this study, it was evident that knowing the rights contributes to effectiveness, but does not guarantee it, as impediments, ignorance and the absence of public policies result in the not exercise of this category of rights. The research uses the hypothetical-deductive approach method and the empirical auxiliary, with the following research techniques: bibliographical, documental and field research (semi-structured interviews), constituted by the quali-quanti approach.