Novos atores sociais: dilemas e desafios na busca da participação.

Abstract

This work analyzes the process of emergence of new social actors and the conflicts of their action on the local political power in Nova Floresta-PB. It deals, therefore, with the historical reconstitution of the appearing of new social groups under the impacts of the process of democratization of the Brazilian society in a local level, specifically, in a small town in the country side Paraibano. The impasses, limits and possibilities of collective action of these groups are analyzed under the light of the local political culture.