Redes morais : um estudo exploratório sobre a solidariedade inerente ao cultivo caseiro de maconha para o uso social recreativo

Abstract

This research results from a study carried out from the moral networks of social actors who plant their own marijuana for recreational social use, a practice that is understood as a popular illegalism. The starting point was to map, through observations, interactions and through the point of view of actors who plant their own marijuana for recreational social use, this study aims at analyzing how these social actors, based on their moral networks, get into relations and establish a specific solidarity based on their practices. To this end, an exploratory study inspired by the ethnographic method and symbolic interactionism is used to interact, to observe, to follow and to interview the moral actors who plant their own marijuana qualitatively. Actors who plant their own marijuana for recreational social use establish a very unique moral life and, thus, they build moral networks and social relationships through their practices. This moral association of actors has mutual ideas, interests and feelings that most part of general population does not share. These mutual ideas are even different from actors who only smoke and do not plant their own marijuana. The practice of marijuana own planting is understood as a source of specific moral activity, and these moral networks established by the actors surpass the individual to the social attachment by this practice. Through this attachment emerges a restricted association within the general society and it emerges from this association a very unique moral life that considers this as a normal activity. Therefore, the moral effect produced by this association evokes a feeling of solidarity among heterogeneous moral actors, forming their aggregations in moral networks, and establishing relations of reciprocity and cooperation, as well as moral recognition and acceptance through the practice of this popular illegalism.