Sociology in Brazil: A Brief Institutional and Intellectual History

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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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Conclusion

In this conclusion, we profile sociology in Brazil considering mainly three aspects: its relationship to social sciences, its modus operandi, and finally its relation to a canon of sociological works. We also outline the perspective of sociology after the elections of 2018, when a far-right presiden... see more

2010s—Sociology’s State-of-Art: Graduate Programs, Academic Career, and Journals

The 2010s has been a fruitful decade for academia. After the investments in higher education since 2003, the expansion of federal universities, and the increase of fundings helped the human sciences as a whole. This chapter investigates quantitative data on the current scenario of sociology in Brazi... see more

1985–2000s: Rebuilding Sociology in the New Democracy

After two decades of being under attack, Brazilian Social Sciences began to construct new paths of development. Foremost among these is a long legislative battle to reinsert Sociology into school curricula, which had became uncritical and conservative during the dictatorship. In academia, Sociology ... see more

1964–1985: The Dictatorship and the Jeopardizing Social Sciences

The military coup of 1964 installed a dictatorship that lasted more than 20 years and completely changed the interests of Social Sciences and its courses. In 1968, universities’ professors and students submitted to the Congress an ante project to reform the cathedratic system. The cobbled project di... see more

1950s–1960s: Sociology in a Golden Era of Consolidation

The first generation of sociologists trained in a Brazilian social sciences course assumed academic positions and started their own research programs in the 1950s. At the heart of the scientific agenda were topics like national identity, the racial question, and economic development. Among other soc... see more

1930s–1940s—Institutionalizing Sociology: The Settlement of an Academic and Scientific Environment

After the defeat of the Paulista revolution, the bourgeois elites of the state of São Paulo set out to create proper institutionalized spaces for training future leaders and bureaucrats. The social sciences were the chosen way. Prestigious foreign professors were hired from the United States and Eur... see more

Before the 1930s—Interpreting the Nation State: Sociological Imagination in a Pre-institutionalized Context

Interpretation of the Brazilian reality is much older than the institutionalization of sociology. Since the end of the nineteenth century, the self-taught, dilettantes, and intellectuals from other disciplines have been publishing their views on contextual topics, such as the formation of the nation... see more

Introduction

Sociology in Brazil is a Brazilian Sociology. Since its inception, the main role of sociological research in Brazil has been understanding the country’s society. As the society changed, so did sociology. Here we provide an outline of the argument of the book, and a table compressing the historical m... see more

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