Estado e sociedade: Um estudo sobre o encontro entre público e privado na agência de estágios da UFC

Abstract

"State" and "society" in Brazil are abstract entities that have different logics of institutional relationships. Both represented by "public" and "private" social actors, which negotiate their conflicting positions in a bureaucratic arena that over the times was unable to fully universalize themselves. Such differences ended up shaping the relationship between the two such as informal process factors, as the ambiguity of the standards, as the requirements of the community, as antirational practices of employees, among others, interfere in the everyday actions of the departments and create a social universe shaped by personalistic ties. The research was conducted in internship agency of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), centralized environment where students of that institution regulate their curricular internship contracts and not mandatory internships. It explains and examines the main stages of orientation, referral and registration of internships concurrently with contradictory emergence of these informal elements that help to solve many everyday problems the agency process.