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Between entrepreneurial discourse and political awareness: an exploratory study of the Junior Enterprise Movement at a public university in Southeast Brazil/Entre o discurso empreendedor e a consciencia politica: estudo exploratorio do Movimento Empresa Junior em uma universidade publica no Sudeste do Brasil/Entre el discurso emprendedor y la conciencia politica: Estudio exploratorio del Movimiento Empresa Junior en una universidad publica en el sudeste de Brasil
This article aims to understand the dynamics of political awareness in the Movimento Empresa Junior (MEJ), examining its role in fostering citizen education and collective identification of junior entrepreneurs, on one of the campuses of a federal public university in southeastern Brazil. The discus...
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Published in: | Cadernos EBAPE.BR 2020-01, Vol.18 (1), p.1 |
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Language: | English |
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Summary: | This article aims to understand the dynamics of political awareness in the Movimento Empresa Junior (MEJ), examining its role in fostering citizen education and collective identification of junior entrepreneurs, on one of the campuses of a federal public university in southeastern Brazil. The discussion is based on the Political Consciousness Analysis Model for understanding the participation in collective actions by Sandoval (2001). It is a qualitative research, whose data were collected through participant observation, questionnaires, focus groups and semi-structured interviews, submitted to content analysis. It is concluded that the MEJ presents the structure of a "movement", because it is closer to the ideas of a business organization, which values entrepreneurial discourse. In addition, the absence of a more solid collective identity weakens the notion of political awareness among junior entrepreneurs. Thus, the MEJ's role as a promoter of political awareness and the participation of managers, which would bring complementarity between professional and citizen training, appears limited. Keywords: Political awareness. Participation. Collective actions. Junior Enterprise Movement. Este artigo visa compreender a dinamica da consciencia politica no Movimento Empresa Junior (MEJ), examinando seu papel no fomento da formacao cidada e da identificacao coletiva dos empresarios juniores, num dos campi de uma universidade publica federal no sudeste do Brasil. A discussao se baseia no Modelo de Analise da Consciencia Politica para compreensao da participacao em acoes coletivas de Sandoval (2001). Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, cujos dados foram coletados atraves da observacao participante, questionarios, grupos focais e entrevistas semiestruturadas, submetidos a analise de conteudo. Conclui-se que o MEJ apresenta a estrutura de um "movimento", pois se aproxima mais do ideario de uma organizacao empresarial, que valoriza o discurso empreendedor. Alem disso, a ausencia de uma identidade coletiva mais solida, enfraquece a nocao de consciencia politica dos empresarios juniores. Assim, o papel do MEJ como fomentador da consciencia politica e da participacao dos gestores, que traria complementariedade entre a formacao profissional e a cidada, se afigura limitado. Palavras-chave: Consciencia politica. Participacao. Acoes coletivas. Movimento Empresa Junior. El objetivo de este articulo es comprender la dinamica de la conciencia politica en el Movimiento Empresa J |
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ISSN: | 1679-3951 1679-3951 |
DOI: | 10.1590/1679-395172642x |