Social bonds and strategies: ¿Is it an option for the horticultural impoverishment families?

Abstract

This article focuses on to show de particularities that asumes the social bonds of some sectors of La Plata's peripheral population, particularly in those familiar groups related to the horticultural production in situations of impoverishment and/or social disadvantage. In this sense is feasible emphasize that the context of this study is the process of social and economic change that, in the last decades of XX century, imply a multiplicity of social transformations in our country; thus, the present analysis is situated in a complex reality of social changes and inequalities that, during the 1990's decade, configured a scenery that had repercussions in the individual's conditions of living and social reproduction. It'll be present the approximations obtained about the changes or permanencies of the bonds that this families spread out (as collective or individually); of the strategies that are elaborated during critical economic and social situations; of how this situations had repercussions in the familiar organization, in his conditions of living and therefore in his social reproduction. But having present that the focus of the analysis is over social bonds and the forms of sociability in this social groups. In this context, it'll be present a whole of questions and problems that allows me to delve deeply in those subjects; therefore, I don't claim to show conclusive results, but give an explicit idea of the approach of those problems as of some theoretical reflexions and the dates obtained during the work of field