Caroline Cristiane de Sousa’s research while affiliated with Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUC-Campinas) and other places

This paper wishes to contribute with the debate about the social struggles for land and with the discussions about the centrality of the rural social movements, bringing elements of a doctoral research conducted in a settlement located in Araras city, São Paulo, Brazil. In this article, an excerpt of this research will be presented, emphasizing the discussion about the possibilities of everyday resistance encountered in this context. This study was conducted by the ethnographic method and the analysis of information collected in the field is grounded on the Community Psychology theoretical assumptions. The research results indicate that collective articulation processes are central for the productive organization and are the main element to keep the settlers in the land. Therefore, the strengthening of these two spheres - the productive organization and social organization - is determinant for the settlement prosperity and for maintaining this collective of settlers in their plots of land.

This article analyses different ways by which Psychology has approached the world of work, promoting debate on whether these strategies constitute a unique or unified approach. Focusing on the branches Social Psychology of Work and Organizational Psychology, we aimed at understanding the history of these two traditions, their origins, and their role in the contemporary context. It was concluded that they have different approaches and understandings of the world of work, and that their historical processes, as well as their representation today, have very little in common. This indicates that they do not belong to the same field. Establishing boundaries between different approaches of Psychology that focus on work, enables the identification of their specificities and reveals the diversity of their objects of study, theoretical framework, methodological proposals, and the political aspects involved in their studies or interventions.