Submitted by PPG Ci?ncias Sociais (csociais-pg@pucrs.br) on 2018-06-05T13:00:24Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Debora_Rinaldi_Dis.pdf: 1711921 bytes, checksum: 69dd311d0194f8495f01de6545700895 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Sheila Dias (sheila.dias@pucrs.br) on 2018-06-12T11:43:19Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Debora_Rinaldi_Dis.pdf: 1711921 bytes, checksum: 69dd311d0194f8495f01de6545700895 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-12T11:51:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Debora_Rinaldi_Dis.pdf: 1711921 bytes, checksum: 69dd311d0194f8495f01de6545700895 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-23 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / The results presented in this dissertation emerge in a research process that analyzes the interpretation of waste pickers on their work activity ? the waste picking ? as well as the development of this interpretation in the biographical process. Considering that the interpretation of the subjects in the social world consists in the interaction with the other, in the course of their life trajectories from certain mechanisms and rules, the present study searches, in the biographical trajectory of the subjects, evidences of what and how of this interpretation. Based on the theoretical and methodological assumptions of the interpretative biographical research, I perform the reconstruction of two interviews using the biographical reconstruction analysis method developed by the sociologist Gabriele Rosenthal. Reconstructions of Aline and Vanessa cases give rise to two distinct types of interpretation on the waste picking, taking into account the macro and micro-sociological mechanisms behind these interpretations. Before presenting the types, I discuss, from the perspective of the authors of interpretative sociology, especially Alfred Sch?tz (2004), Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann (2014), in what way the activity of the waste picking has been institutionalizing in Brazil, since the end of the nineteenth century, as a social, economic, environmental and political practice, according to mechanisms that ensure its legitimacy before society. Institutionalization, legitimation and socialization are therefore some of the processes behind these practices. The proposed approach contributes to the understanding of the social mechanisms behind the phenomenon of waste picking, evidencing the active participation of the collectors in the construction of this phenomenon. / Os resultados apresentados nesta disserta??o surgem num processo de pesquisa que analisa a interpreta??o de catadores de res?duos sobre a sua atividade laboral ? a cata??o ?, bem como o desenvolvimento dessa interpreta??o no processo biogr?fico. Considerando que a interpreta??o dos sujeitos no mundo social se constitui na intera??o com o outro, no curso de suas trajet?rias de vida a partir de determinados mecanismos e regras, o presente estudo busca, na trajet?ria biogr?fica dos sujeitos, evid?ncias do qu? e do como dessa interpreta??o. Com base nos pressupostos te?ricos e metodol?gicos da pesquisa biogr?fica interpretativa, realizo a reconstru??o de duas entrevistas a partir do m?todo de an?lise de reconstru??o biogr?fica de caso desenvolvido pela soci?loga Gabriele Rosenthal. As reconstru??es dos casos de Aline e Vanessa d?o origem a dois tipos distintos de interpreta??o sobre a cata??o, levando em considera??o os mecanismos macro e microssociol?gicos por tr?s dessas interpreta??es. Antes da apresenta??o dos tipos, discuto, a partir da perspectiva de autores da sociologia interpretativa, em especial Alfred Sch?tz (2004), Peter Berger e Thomas Luckmann (2014), de que forma a atividade da cata??o vem se institucionalizando no Brasil desde o fim do s?culo XIX como uma pr?tica social, econ?mica, ambiental e pol?tica, de acordo com mecanismos que assegurem sua legitima??o perante a sociedade. Institucionaliza??o, legitima??o e socializa??o s?o, portanto, alguns dos processos por tr?s dessas pr?ticas. A abordagem proposta contribui especialmente para a compreens?o dos mecanismos sociais por detr?s do fen?meno da cata??o, evidenciando a participa??o ativa dos catadores na sua constru??o.