COOPERATIVES SOCIETIES AS A TOOL FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Abstract

The article demonstrates how cooperative organizations work to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The discussion is essential insofar as it reflects on this relationship, contributing to discussions on the role and contributions of cooperativism in achieving the SDGs and its goals, analyzing the specificities of organization and management, as well as cooperative doctrine and theory. The text analyzes the essential characteristics of the cooperative movement and its contradictions within the dominant economic model of society. Cooperative Societies, through their social actors, guided by collective principles of solidarity, reciprocity and sharing, have a prominent place in the promotion of the SDGs, linked to a proposal of social well-being, social justice, quality of life and transformations around the world, becoming determinant in the process of awareness, transformation and cultural change of individuals so that they can rethink the action and role played in the world. The methodology is hypothetical deductive with the use of a bibliographic review.