Elite política do Tocantins: origem social e trajetória política de seus membros

Abstract

In this dissertation, I try to identify the Political Elite of the State of Tocantins and understand how it was formed and what the social origin of its members. He also tries to understand the political trajectory of each of his members from the beginning of his career to the elite of the political field. The concepts of field, symbolic capital and other sociological concepts are explained by Bourdieu's theory. To identify the elite and embark on empirically how it acts, both to influence, and to impose your political decision within the field, I used the positional method. This methodology takes into account individuals who assumed or assume formal sentence. In this research, I consider the formal position of the elective mandate. So they are only part of the sample who exercised more than an elective mandate in Tocantins. The coverage time goes from the first election after the creation of the State (1988) until the last election before initiating this research (2016). All who have overcome more than one election in this period, whether municipal election in Palmas, Araguaína or Gurupi, whether it be a state election, both executive and legislative are part of this research. Multiple Correspondence Analysis (ACM) is used to treat data obtained. ACM is a technique of the field of statistics that Bourdieu transposed to the social sciences and through it, it´s possible to quantitatively synthesize the qualitative data by providing them in a structural, multidimensional and relational way. It resulted in two axes that were formed from twenty-seven active variables. These axes can explain the political field of Tocantins and point out which trajectories lead to the elite of the field. The analysis of the axes generated by ACM revealed an elite that was prepared to be elite, since most of its members are children of politicians who worked in Goiânia or in the region where today is South of Tocantins.