Conceptuals possibilities of sociology of absences in contexts of social unqualification

Abstract

In this work, we develop issues on situations of poverty experienced by a significant share of Brazilian workers in contemporaneity. In the first part of the article, we review authors who deal with poverty issues, be it through the ideas of marginalization, marginal inclusion or social unqualification. It is assumed that the historic reconstruction of the social unqualification process can help understand how social structures stand out before actors with constitutive power, making up subjectivation modes and acting on the psychosocial base of individuals. In the second part, we propose the usage of theoretic concepts by Boaventura de Sousa Santos in his social research with subjects under situation of social unqualification, as a referential source capable of explaining, at least partly, this complex reality.