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In this paper, we trace a conceptual roadmap aimed at reconciling a life course perspective with the sociology of class and social inequality. We begin by presenting the life course perspective, reflecting on the central role it grants to processes of institutional regulation. Taking stock of critiques to both atomist explanations of agency and structural determinisms, we advocate for a longitudinal reading of how inequalities shape individual and collective trajectories, mobilizing concepts advanced by Pierre Bourdieu. We then demonstrate the potential of this approach to discuss how life course trajectories unfold in late modernity, drawing on recent research on Portugal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the influence of the context of origin in the social construction process of outsourced cleaning service providers' careers. As a theoretical framework, the neo-Bourdieusian dispositional approach proposed by Jessé Souza was adopted. The methodological approach privileged the life histories to analysis the professional trajectories. The results of the research illustrate that the contexts of origin portrayed by the interviewees, characterized by low volumes of capital and social disorganization, conditioned their professional trajectories, marked by poorly qualified insertions in the labor market. Such results contribute to put in check the voluntary career approaches that emphasize the individual agency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes an approach to the identification of class ascriptions of the members of the human rights movement in Argentina. After observing a polyclassist integration of the social movement, it focuses on the dominance in its leadership and composition of members of the middle classes and sometimes more specifically of the service classes. First, some dimensions underlying the concept of "social class" are developed, and then, through different surveys, outline the composition of different human rights organizations. Finally, it is concluded that although class ascription was not decisive for the composition of the movement, it did lay the foundations for a shared political culture and for the adoption of discourse and action repertoires. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the theoretical approaches to the persistence of class inequalities in educational attainment and social mobility. After examining them, the paper stresses their insufficiencies to explain the reproduction of class inequalities in education and social mobility, and also the possibility of social change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to reflect on the relevance of the ethnographic method to the seizure of social policies in the field of Food and Nutrition. It is based on data from a survey conducted in a community kitchen from a sorting and waste composting unit (UTC) - popularly known as "dump" - in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil. It is argued that the merit of this research is its traditional method, ethnography, which involves a set of concepts and procedures that will lead us to the point of view of the groups surveyed through an intensive work-site. Firstly we seek to bring some definitions and characterizations of social policies that address Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) as well as the ethnographic context; then, based on some ethnographic notes, we will try to elucidate, although initially, possible appropriations that actors do on the community kitchen and on other programs there. Without pretending to wind up the debate, at the end the discussion is in favor of the relevance of the method for a deep understanding of the directions given to social programs and to the questioning of the different logics that inhabit the context studied, allowing critically rethink the government's actions concerning FNS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]