A Construção das Redes Sociais de Operadores de ONGs: Os Mecanismos de Recrutamento a Partir das Relés Sociais

• Main Author: Souto Maior Fontes, Breno Augusto
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2007-06-01
• Series: REDES: Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales
• Subjects: Social Networks; Social relais; Voluntary Associations
• Online Access: http://revista-redes.rediris.es/html-vol12/Vol12_7.htm

The following article investigates certain processes that undergo the professional trajectory of NGOs officials: how they are recruited, what are their most common institutional fields of affiliation, what significant features could be identified in these processes. Our aim here is twofold: on the one hand, to reveal the mechanisms which account for the formation of these actors social networks. On the other hand, we investigate their different insertions in fields of sociability. The concept of social relais – here understood as a mechanism that produces and disseminates the mobilization of individuals from constituted to new networks, creating networks of networks – is used in the analysis of information about NGOs officials working in the field of education in the Metropolitan Region of Recife.