Social Technology for Changing The Poverty’s Condition in Brazil

Abstract

This article highlights the relevance of the appropriation and use of social technology, in an autonomous and democratic way, in the process of facing the condition of poverty in the territories of the impoverished working classes in Recife-PE, Brazil. Therefore, social technology is understood as a set of techniques, at the same time, material and immaterial produced and appropriated by society itself territorially contextualized within the scope of its own historical dynamics. The bibliographic review and some results of the empirical experiences developed by the Social Movements and Urban Space research group in these territories were some of the methodological procedures used for the operationalization of the dialectical method approach that was chosen for the discussion established here. The reflection concludes by emphasizing the importance of creating and using, in an autonomous and democratic way, different forms of social technology as one more contribution in order to change the poverty’s condition in the impoverished working classes’ territories.