Development as a Socio-Cultural Construct: Contributions to Intervention Processes

Abstract

Development understood as a multiple, historic and territorially contextualized sociocultural construct becomes a redefined alternative that enriches contemporary problem-solving debates of the conventional economic growth centered discourse. It aims towards new ways of understanding and operating it, giving more importance to human, social, politic, economic and space-time aspects in an integral, synergic, systematic and emergent relationship, with a concern on the realization of individual and collective subjects, enabling sense horizons in specific contexts. The structure of this alternative drives design, formulation, follow-up, assessment and execution of intervention processes acknowledging their role in the transformation of society, through the construction of a development operative system.