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This paper analyzes the dialogue that the Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman established with two great names of contemporary Philosophy: Jürgen Habermas and Richard Rorty. For this purpose, the paper addresses Bauman's works written in different moments of his career. It demonstrates and explains the sociologist's criticisms to Habermas's philosophy and inclinations to Richard Rorty's Philosophy. It concludes with a comment on the influence of Habermas and Rorty on Bauman's Sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The school of today should not only focus on unilateral training of their students, but their omnilateral training. The figure of the teacher as a great promoter dialectical pedagogy in the classroom, aimed at critical civic education of their students. Thus, this paper aims to reflect how the use of a work of fiction today may be worked in Sociology classes of high school, contemplating the various dimensions in the Hunger Games trilogy. Students can learn and reflect on the questions posed in the book, linking them to their reality and the reality of the society in which they live. Screenings of films recorded relating to the first two books and the third book will be counted students in oral form will be made, since the last book is still in the film adaptation. The analyzes made throughout the paper will be the light of the concepts and theoretical assumptions of João Luiz Gasparin, Esther Buffa, Mikhail Bakhtin, among other authors. It is intended that at the end of classes, students have developed a critical awareness of the contents worked and how they perceive the same discipline can offer them knowledge of various areas of knowledge, not being restricted only to their specific content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the adoption of the mandatory discipline of sociology in high schools throughout the basic education network in the country (2009), the process of institutionalization and consolidation of sociological analysis must be discussed. The institutionalization of the social sciences in the country occurred in a particular way, being initiated by "interpreters of Brazil" - doctors, engineers and lawyers -, and was subsequently consolidated as a scientific discipline. Thus, this paper brings a literature review based on classical and contemporary authors of Sociology. It is noteworthy, though, the experience of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the consolidation of the discipline. The reflections emphasize that the general explanations on social problems, essays and systematic scientific production were significant elements in the consolidation of the Social Sciences in the country. The discussion aims to establish a foundation for sociology teachers and researchers as well as for professionals from other fields of knowledge that use sociology as a reference to investigate the country's current social problems [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study compares the history of Journalism in Portugal and Brazil and discusses the journalist's professional education and the media labor market in the global society. The aim was to analyze the following issues: a) the changes undergone by Journalism from the 20th century to the 21st century; b) the influences of gender in the journalistic work; c) the positions occupied by women and men in different sectors of the press, i.e., in the different positions in the editorial office and positions of command. The adopted method was that of literature review. The current study found that the feminization in journalism increased after its professionalization process, which started in the last century, followed by the appearance of professional courses in Brazil and Portugal. The advent of technology led to changes in the editorial office, with new positions and vehicles, such as online journalism and Internet television. All these transformations are changing the journalist's professional profile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This qualitative study investigated the thematic approaches on gender and adventure activities in the scientific works published in international journals, presented in the databases of Capes Journal Portal, in the field of Humanities, focusing on the subcategories of Sociology and Psychology in the period between January 2006 and June 2010. For the development of this paper we made use of systematic review and exploratory research and data were descriptively analyzed through the Thematic Content Analysis Technique. Results show that six articles addressed the adventure activities as a central theme under three categories: adventure activities and subjective elements (3), adventure activities and their educational potential (1) and the pursuit of sensations (2). While literature shows many positive aspects in different levels of human development in experiences with adventure activities, the production of scientific studies on this subject is still scarce. We suggest new looks on this issue in the area of Humanities in order to better understand the complexity of human involvement with nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is based on reflections and studies derived from a research trip experience to Paris, France, in which the (supposed) exoticism and Brazilian cordiality were under scrutiny. Carnival, soccer, natural spontaneity, women's eroticism (and exoticism), among other aspects, produce reifying and essentializing images of what is or would be the Brazilian identity. The paper approaches mainly the work of Sergio Buarque de Holanda, "Raízes do Brasil", characterized above all, by the idea of cordiality as the Brazilian contribution to civilization. Would the work of Buarque de Holanda be an example of our "sociology of the non authenticity"? Would Brazil be a country condemned to an imitation or an example of authenticity? These are the types of question that punctuate the debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reflects sociologically about some characteristic dimensions of youth, taking into account, above all, some bibliographical research developed in Portugal and in Brazil, and the Weberian theoretical-methodological proposals. In a second moment, it will articulate the several senses of the school as an organization with young student's images built by the adult educational actors, in contrast with the images mobilized by the own youngsters, both in ideal terms and in terms of their concrete school experience. One of the results enhances the non-coincidence of representations built by the educational actors, appropriate with the several actors' differentiated feeling of belonging to the school organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Leisure is analyzed in the present text from its relationships in the capitalist monopolist, industrialist, and state economy complex and of the solidary popular economy or not. It brings as empirical data the insertion of leisure in such economic contexts -- in the undertaker, commodity, sports, spectacle and privatization of leisure --, the discussion on production of knowledge, professional formation and policy, exemplifying the action of the CREF/CONFEF system intervening in the popular culture and economy, contributing for the destruction of the productive forces and its possibilities of leisure. It raises as a historical possibility the social responsibility of associate producers, organic intellectuals and cultural agitators, in the construction of a new culture, the socialist culture, that demands a rigorous consideration of the theory of knowledge and pedagogical theory that subsidizes, builds and consolidates the revolutionary praxis of leisure, also responsible for the socialization of the working class. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]