This article deals with the rural environment, considering three historically diferentiated moments: the traditional rural, the modern rural and the socio-environmental rural. In order to analyze these moments, the author takes forms of social organization in the countryside into account, along with their respective forms of sociability, relationships with nature and the actors involved in the construction of the rural environment. Analysis is based on data and information from studies on the rural in different parts of the country which have been recognized for their contribution to the literature.
Rural environment in Brazil; New actors and the contemporary rural; Socio-environmental rurality