PROJETOS E OPORTUNIDADES

O PROCESSO REIVINDICAÇÃO DO SISTEMA DE COTAS POR ESTUDANTES DA UFRGS

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a dissertation, which dealt with the process of forming a collective of students of UFRGS, entitled Working Group on Affirmative Action (GTAA), which proposed to study and claim the implementation of the quota system at that university. The aim was to investigate this process, seeking factors that explain its occurrence in the context studied, involving the individuals who participated and the frame conditions of the institution that allowed its emergence they were confronted. Combining theoretical proposals on the social action from the constitution of 'projects' individual and collective and studies about collective action based on the notion of "political opportunity frames", the object of study was questioned tofound what gave sustention to this organization. The conclusion arrived is that the agenda of quotas, less than forits intrinsic content, was adopted by the group members as a way to assign meanings to their actions as graduates, given the availability found for this proposal, showing that are in the “social situations” that are produced the elements for the emergence of political actions that seek their transformations.