The dynamics of social systems in Amazonian communities from the perspective of functional differentiation by Niklas Luhmann

Abstract

Amazonian communities residing in Conservation Units have unique characteristics, such as the development of agroextractive activities within the Amazonian megabiome to be protected. This condition is the reason for proposing the identification of alternative choices related to local development by Amazonian communities in the face of internal complexities from the perspective of Niklas Luhmann's theory of system-environment differentiation (1977) permeating Duek's concepts of structural change; Brodjonegoro; Russian (2010). The use of Design Thinking tools, which allowed to organize, detail the discussion and elaborate the visual representation of the information, is added to the study proposal of a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive nature. As a result, it was possible to visualize the choices and restrictions that communities face, in addition to their exchange systems, supported by local decisions and partnerships, which are not always based on prices, and this implies the emergence of other normative qualification systems that attribute value that which can bring the most advantage to local survival and sustainable development.