Uma andorinha sozinha não faz verão: relações de solidariedade promotoras da liderança solidária compartilhada

Abstract

Solidary economy is inserted in a dominative economical system; while enquiries this system’s assumptions and practices. The main point of this dissertation is the leadership matter in cooperative economy context, looking for a comprehension of this phenomenon through a study of multiple cases held in three different cooperative economical ventures in São Leopoldo/RS. Each venture works in a different segment of activity. Solidary economy and leadership concepts are addressed in this research from the sociological perspective. Data were collected based on observation, documental corpus analysis and semi-structured interviews. Data analyses were made based on the Collective Subject Discourse (DSC, in Portuguese) method. Conclusions point to the complexity and contradictions on logics of cooperation which take place between the social actors and their importance in the ventures’ context, undertaking strengthening of social exchanges in order to the growth of the individual by means of cooperative and collective