CARACTERIZAÇÕES DE JECA TATU NO SISTEMA BUROCRÁTICO ESTATAL BRASILEIRO SOB A ÓTICA WEBERIANA

Authors

  • Cristina Hinterlang
  • Gustavo Biasoli Alves

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48075/rt.v7i13.5216

Keywords:

Literatura Lobatiana, Burocracia, Max Weber.

Abstract

This study has the purpose to analyze the writer Monteiro Lobato’s point of view about the Brazilian bureaucratic system through the picturesque character Jeca Tatu, featured in stories Urupês (1918) and Jeca Tatu – a ressurreição (1918). For this investigation, it’s emphasized Max Weber’s concepts in relation to bureaucracy, which they are discussed in Ensaios de Sociologia (1982), Os Economistas (1997) e Economia e Sociedade (2004). For the thinker, the bureaucracy is presented as necessary and efficient organization for excellence, while for Lobato, Brazilian bureaucratic system seems to be characterized as inefficient, becasuse the character Jeca Tatu, metaphor of the agriculturist in decade of 1918, he is considered as sick and unable to work and, maybe, a victim of the political system, which it is not guarantee to him a minimum conditions of quality of life.

Published

23-05-2011

How to Cite

HINTERLANG, C.; BIASOLI ALVES, G. CARACTERIZAÇÕES DE JECA TATU NO SISTEMA BUROCRÁTICO ESTATAL BRASILEIRO SOB A ÓTICA WEBERIANA. Trama, Marechal Cândido Rondon, v. 7, n. 13, p. 48–62, 2011. DOI: 10.48075/rt.v7i13.5216. Disponível em: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/trama/article/view/5216. Acesso em: 18 jul. 2024.

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Section

ARTIGO