Mitologias do desenvolvimento: extens o rural e moderniza o: o caso de Santa Catarina (décadas de 1950 e 1960)

This article discusses howthe Rural Extension Service in SantaCatarina, in the mid-twentiethcentury, it became one of theimportant elements of public politicsfor rural populations. The RuralExtension participated in theconstruction and dissemination ofmythologies about the modernizationwhich served as background for manyof the political conflicts related tosociocultural changes in the rural areasof Brazil.