Entrepreneurs or politicians? Socioeconomic resources and professional positions of federal deputies in Brazil

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the diversification of social positions concomitant with the positions within the political space. In this sense, a research universe was set up with 235 cases that had links with economic activities and also played the role of Federal Deputy between 1990 and 2010 in Brazil. The information allowed to categorize: the longevity of political careers, the possession of economic heritages, the school resources available and the logics of the occupational and professional presentations conditioned by these previous resources. Finally, it was possible to demonstrate that there is a strategy of social reproduction, based on this diversification and mobilization of resources as social assets, that is, the logic of these cases is not to close in the political space, but to occupy different positions in distinct spaces beyond of politics.

Keywords

• deputados federais
• empresários
• profissões
• patrimônio econômico
• diplomas escolares