EAN: 9783030104382

SOCIOLOGY IN BRAZIL - VERIDIANA DOMINGOS CORDEI...

This book provides an overview of the institutional and intellectual development of sociology
in Brazil from the early 1900s to the present day  through military coups  dictatorships and
democracies. It charts the profound impact of sociology on Brazilian public life and how  in
turn  upheavals in the history of the country and its universities affected its scientific
agenda. This engaging account highlights the extent of the discipline¿s colonial inheritance 
its early institutionalization in São Paulo  and its congruent rise and fall during repeated
regime changes. The authors¿ analysis draws on original research that maps the concentration of
research interests  new developments  publications and centers of production in Brazilian
sociology  using qualitative and quantitative data. It concludes with a reflection on the
potential impact of the recent far-right turn in Brazilian politics on the future of the
discipline. This book contributes a valuable country study to the history of sociology and will
appeal to a range of social scientists in addition to scholars of disciplinary historiography 
intellectual and Brazilian history.

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