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This paper aims to problematize the Sociology proposed by the French anthropologist Florence Weber to mathematical Education, taking her concept of social scene as the articulation axis, and the theorization on language games developed by the Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. The idea is to create possibilities to think about mathematical Education in a different way, develop new thoughts and give new meanings to it. This paper lists some modern elements in the making of Mathematics and shows that it was established as a form of true knowledge in Western society in different times and spaces. Afterwards, it introduces Mathematics as a language game and as a social scene. Finally, some considerations are made about a possible direction for Mathematics Education, suggesting that it should be seen in a different way, not as a hard science, but as something that transcends exact calculations and can be found in the ways of knowing and doing in different cultures. Thus, strategies that differ from those imposed by the school could be taken into account and enable new ways of mathematizing that may be silent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The intention of this article is to reflect on the concepts of norm and linguistic norm. The text begins by showing how the reflections of Social Sciences, particularly Sociology, maybe fruitful for defining the concept of norms in the area of Linguistics, as the latter turned its attention to this concept later than the other disciplines. The main conceptualizations proposed in Linguistics are then presented. Finally, attention is given to the concept of standard language, whose definition still varies from one author to another. In this way, the paper brings several clues to deepen the reflection on the subject and hopes to contribute to its relevance as an object of scientific research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study investigated the teaching of Sociology in high school at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Paraíba (IFPB) - Campus Sousa, highlighting the organization of the subject in the Pedagogical Project of courses integrated into high school, the contents taught and the adoption of pedagogical resources in teaching plans and class diaries. As a methodological proposal, a bibliographical and documentary research was carried out, through the analysis procedure of the Pedagogical Projects of Course (PPC's), the teaching plans of the discipline and the diaries of the professor of sociology. From the results, it is possible to perceive a concern with the contextualization of the contents, in order to establish connection with pedagogical resources that arouse the students' interest. On the other hand, it is perceived the need of the researched institution to transpose the interdisciplinarity of the paper to the classroom, as well as to encourage the willingness to work together between the disciplines. Equally, engage in the debate so that the discipline of Sociology can continue to be offered in basic education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the configuration of female leadership and the conception of marriage in the Bola de Neve Church (BNC) in the city of Londrina, PR. The documentary research was carried out with the publications made available to the faithful, intentionally the book “A formação de um líder” of a leader and the chapter “O alicerce de um líder - a família” served as a source for analysis and interpretation guided by the contributions of the Sociology of religions and by studies on conservative thinking with an emphasis on the role of women. As a result, it was found that female leadership exists within the institution but conditioned to married faithful. This criterion provides elements for understanding the values defended by the denomination regarding marriage and the attributions of exclusively female responsibility: domestic work, management of family conflicts and preservation and reproduction of religious values; aspects that approximate the BNC's discourse to maxims of a fundamentalist religious character. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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 aims to revisit the Pauline peristasis catalogues in his second letter to the Corinthians. There, a new perspective is found, based on the interdisciplinary dialogue between the Bible, Psychology and Spirituality, useful for understanding resilience from a Christian perspective, as deduced from the ministry of the apostle to the nations. The concept of resilience, used first in physics and later in Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Sociology, is today found in various hermeneutical approaches to individual and group realities in which people are called to face adverse situations such as difficult relationships, diseases, problems, etc. An analysis of the Pauline peristasis catalogues not only demonstrates that the apostle is a model of resilient behavior but reveals, also, the sides of a hermeneutic arch whose origin is the vocation he received from Christ and whose goal to be reached is the consolation and salvation of Corinthians by him. This finding recalls once again the relevance of Paul's teachings for an interior life anchored in a spirituality of resilience in current times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the process of (dis)legitimacy of artistic-sociological consciences in Russia during the early years of Stalinist rule, in order to recover the history of language studies and the context of production of Bakhtinian writings. The method that underlies the reflection undertaken is based on the theoretical-methodological assumptions of Bakhtin (2006 [1979]; 2010 [1920-24]), Medviédev (2016 [1928]) and Volóchinov (2017 [1929], 2013), among others, which present criticisms of the formalist model, prevailing in Stalinist Russia. Historical sources are also used (Deutscher, 2006; Fitzpatrick, 2017) to investigate the political-ideological context of the post-revolution of 1917. The relevance of this manuscript is realized in the contribution of a contemporary but not anachronistic look, which brings to light a critical reading about the construction of philosophical and ethical (aesthetic) approaches on artistic-sociological consciences in Russia. The results show that, despite the execrable situation to which the members of the Bakhtin Circle were subjected amid attempts to (un)artistic legitimacy by the Russian state, researchers and intellectuals resisted and proposed to (re)think the aesthetic object (literary) as conceived by Stalin, whose primary proposal was the unification of the Russian language. Thus, this is not only language movements for the implementation of a linguistic system conception, but also a sociohistorical-cultural reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper proposes a concept of embodied subjectivity in the framework of an existential sociology. Starting from Maurice Merleau-Ponty's existentialist-phenomenological philosophy, I present some questions concerning the subject and the body in the social world. These questions are then discussed with reference to Erving Goffman's sociological theory and the work of Michel Foucault. Through the works of these three authors, a notion of embodied subjectivity is constructed, that is, a concept of subject that takes into consideration the body as a fundamental nexus of social relations. Finally, two directions of a possible existential sociology are explored from the notion of embodied subjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay starts from the premise that sociological analysis has made important and valuable contributions to the conceptualization of the cultural, moral, and institutional aspects of communication. At present, however, the contributions of the sociology seem poorly represented within the field of communicative studies because these commonly overlook the fact that digital communication is inextricably linked to the social and material spaces which humans act and interact. Considering that it can generate a necessarily limited understanding of the communicative phenomenon, the objective of this work is to explore the approaches proposed by five schools of thought regarding the sociology of communication. Firstly, this paper reviews the main works produced by the Chicago School, the Columbia School, the Frankfurt School, the Toronto School and the Birmingham School to try to elucidate the conceptual bases of their postulates and to understand the criticisms they received from other scholars in the field. Subsequently, it describes the historical changes of the disciplinary research program and the approaches through which social researchers are trying to recognize and to understand the complex sociotechnical assemblages that characterize contemporary communication. Finally, it argues that the sociological perspective continues to be substantial in developing a critical comprehension of the social, political, and economic impact of digital mediatization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes how the social relations of class, race, and gender present in the social formation of South Africa resulted in the constitution of a pigmentocratic system of social welfare. The study is qualitative and it's based on the theory of the consubstantiality of class, race, and gender social relations produced by South African critical sociology. For the survey of corpora, literature review and analysis of official documents were carried out. Documents from the last years of the colonial period up to the year 1996 were analyzed. The study identified that the segregation relations generated a comprehensive system of social welfare oriented towards the social empowerment and social protection of white families. Meanwhile, Blacks, Coloureds, and Asians have become increasingly deprived of rights. Even with the end of apartheid, the South African welfare system continues (re)producing pigmentocracy. It stems from the neoliberal conditions that led the transition to democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]

The main goal of this article is to discuss and present an analytical model for the sociological research of biographical crises, i. e., stages of life marked by the disruption of habitual frameworks of action and thought, which have a substantial impact on the lives of individuals. First, the main contributions from sociology to the study of this topic are mapped, namely by identifying what fits the concept of crisis in the literature. This discussion provides the basis for the identification, in a second part of the paper, of the main analytical axes that structure the dimensions of analysis of biographical crises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This theoretical essay discusses the issue of race relations in Brazil and explores its interfaces with studies on diversity management in organizations. Therefore, it seeks to problematize this field's appropriation of American studies, pushing to the background -- or even ignoring -- studies on race relations developed in Brazilian anthropology and sociology. This questioning helps us realize that organizational studies in Brazil have been displaced in this debate, either by the assumption that our diversity management should follow Anglo-Saxon parameters, or by the distance that the area has maintained from Brazilian studies that address racial minorities and their dynamic relations. The final part of the paper retrieves two important works produced under Brazilian studies on race relations and, from them, examines this debate's contributions to the study of Brazilian organizations. The paper concludes by drawing researchers' attention to the need to rescue the Brazilian debate as a way of contextualizing diversity management in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a reflection on the processes of identity construction in a context where traditional identity references are in crisis. Thinking about Education and Social Intervention in a local development perspective involves the consideration of multiple cultural identities in interaction, and sometimes in conflict. Thus, there must be a development of a reflective stance to interpret identity as a process that results from the interaction between the subject(s) and there context(s). Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to conceptualize knowledge and the understanding of the organization of narrative identity as a reading strategy of the community and assess their weaknesses and potentialities, in the journey of construction of genuinely plural and inclusive communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate one aspect of the “sociologization” of psychoanalysis made in Dialectic of Enlightenment. Our approach is the real abstraction present in the commodity exchange theorized by Sohn-Rethel considered here as the origin of the technical nature of human rationality. This explanation is supported by the parallel found between the economy of commodity and the Freudian instinctual economy, especially by the objectification of the human beings. Therefore, we will also demonstrate how the genesis of enlightened rationality, according to the Freudian point of view, follows the defense against anxiety and fear, which leads to the domination of nature and otherness as objects to be controled. Dealing with instinctual and commercial genesis of rationality is, in our view, an essential point to understand the book Dialectic of Enlightenment, as well as to spring a critical debate on the possibilities of a liberating rationality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with the relationship between research and teaching through the subject Supervised Internship Course of the Degree in Social Sciences of the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT). Searched to analyze the extent to which the use of the ethnographic method contributes to the trainee students to develop reflections on the school, the student, the teacher and the other actors that are part of the daily school dynamics. It is a qualitative research that has used techniques such as bibliographic review and interviews. We conclude that the supervised internship reflected from the research activity contributes to the undergraduate student motivate himself to the academic life, constructing arguments from the graduation that the degree is a formation that must be linked to the research, as well as the ethnography during the internship Contributes to strengthen the relationship between research and teaching, thus ensuring the trainee reflects on the main challenges present in everyday school reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the research in education. It aims to show Ethnomethodology and critical Etnopesquisa as research possibilities of phenomenological inspiration for research in education. It is a literature research. It presents ethnomethodology as criticism of Comtean, Durkheim and Weber positivism showing that the etnomethods are activities and possibilities of individuals in society to make sense of their world. The etnopesquisa criticism follows the same path and says that the practice of making / building knowledge and learning is not separate from its expression of context. Both can assist in the process of building and the emancipation of knowledge and the people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between 1940 and 1960, there was extensive academic research in the field of sociology and anthropology of so-called community studies in Brazil. In the era of large projects in the social sciences in the 1950s, involving research on race relations, education and health, we highlight the research conducted in the São Francisco Valley, under the coordination of the sociologist Donald Pierson. Attention is given in this paper to the issue of health in these studies as a means to make intelligible the relevant issues at the time, namely: cultural resistance to change, relations between tradition and modernity, tensions and complementarities between scientific knowledge and folk healing practices, among others. The examination of the research project of San Francisco identified the issue of health, linked to socioeconomic and cultural aspects, emerges as a key to the knowledge of living conditions and social reality of the communities investigated. Social scientists have sought to describe them in detail and comprehensively, taking the process of cultural change as the main axis of research. This paper presents the research that formed the said project and shows how social scientists have addressed the issue of health in their work. Linked by the theme of health, social sciences and the development context of the 1950s are gathered in the San Francisco Project, whose research allows us to understand the dynamics of social change in that period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is the clarification of some key concepts of the methodology of biographical narratives. Despite of the fact that this methodology is widely used, its theoretical underpinnings not yet appear to have been systematically compiled. Accordingly, the objectives of this paper are as follows: [i] develop the method of narrative interview and the method of analysis of biographical narratives created by Fritz Schütze; [ii] clarify some of the theoretical points that this author assumes (as the task of sociology and its object of study) through the concepts of self, society and language; and [iii] explore the influences of the theoretical framework of the phenomenological sociology of Alfred Schutz and compare both authors. Its conclusion is the statement that the phenomenological sociology cannot be considered the only theoretical framework that underlies Schütze's methodology, which points out to new questions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Slightl y open-Slightly closed: The cursed heritage of the concept of communication. This paper discusses a debate that is common in the social sciences and in philosophy, but has not yet received an adequate treatment in the field of communication. This is the debate about the opening and the closure of consciousness and of systems, which is an epistemological attitude that underlies the concept of communication, notwithstanding the lack of a theoretical foundation. The paper deals with that debate by means of Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems, the cybernetics of Heinz von Foerster and the philosophies of Jürgen Habermas, Gilles Deleuze and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It is divided into nine topics and ends with a summary and a short conclusion on the present state of the theoretical debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In today's society the sport is a phenomenon of great impact, with cultural, psychological, economic and political implications. The great international events to come in the country have been calling the attention of everybody but, in despite of this, the modern sport is little researched and understood. The word sport has been used in multiple meanings, which makes it difficult to define it, to manage it as well as to build knowledge about it. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to analyze the sport, to think about the impact in the society and to present a point of view about the definition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to question this "pedagogical prejudice", making room for a debate addressed to the understanding of the sociological and philosophical knowledge as constitutive knowledge of one of the main social functions of the school, namely: the education for citizenship. We bring also the discussion of the specificity of Sociology and Philosophy in the School, including such disciplines as members of an educational project founded to build a "prudent knowledge for a decent life," as teaches us today, Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2006). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we revisit the notion of classics from the literature, we return to the topic in the field of sociology and extend this idea to the medical / health sociology. We have analyzed some of the concepts developed by several authors - Gellius, Sainte-Beuve, Twain, T. S Elliot, Borges, Calvino, Merton, Schwartzman, Baehr - and discussed the possibility of applying this notion in more recent fields, such as medical sociology / health / disease. We've pointed out the coexistence, nowadays, of notions of «classic» in the tradition of the 17th century (the «chosen», «teaching models», «language models») to notions of eternal and universal models (19th century) and of «authority» (20th century). We emphasize the character of redesigning and implementing the «classic» to a new situation. In this sense, we understand its extension to the field of sociology of health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents reflections on the position that sociology occupies in the school curriculum of secondary education and the importance that students attach to this discipline during lessons. The reflections were based on systematic observations in the classroom of Sociology of two public schools in a city in the southern state of Minas Gerais during participation as a fellow of the Pibid Social Sciences course. The aim is to reflect on the difficulties faced by teachers in this area make their students are interested in the discipline. Apparently, for students a discipline that has no tradition in their curriculum, such as Sociology, does not deserve your attention and human effort during class. For this reason is that classes fleeing the conventional scheme and projects like Pibid show themselves important in the learning process of these students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this paper is to analyze the theory of regulation and how It has contributed to the Geographical Sciences. The Regulation School interested in understanding the reasons why the capitalist accumulation's system goes through periods of development, stability and crisis, has built a solid and concise theory, which, though little known in Brazil, has received wide acceptance in many countries like France, England, Germany and the United States, influencing various sciences such as Geography and Sociology. On Geography the Theory of Regulation has influenced many writers, especially those that unfold in analyzes of capitalist accumulation regime and how their transformations modify the space in which we are, and research relevant to different modes of governance and its relation with the reproduction and development of the capital in new industrial spaces as Arranjos Produtivos Locais, Distritos Industriais Marshalianos, Clusters and others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present a brief reflection on the teaching of philosophy and sociology at the basic education. To do so, we rely on the available literature and official documents, especially the Basic Education Curriculum Guidelines of the State of Paraná. After presenting a brief historical analysis of the presence / absence of philosophy and sociology in what we now call high school, I discuss the main objectives of these areas of knowledge. Finally, I briefly discuss my work as a professor of sociology in high school to demonstrate how labor categories of estrangement and denaturalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of social relations present at celebrations in Minas Gerais during the gold. Especially the input of the new bishop of Mariana in the year of 1748 and the connection of this feast eminently ecclesiastical with the forms of socialization and organization of popular Catholicism festive connected to brotherhoods. Understand the games of symbolic relationships and reputation that come from that contact between different social strata, identifying the actors, their forms of relationships and how they identified similar groups before the "white," "brown" and "black" within the universe the Catholic brotherhoods and the game between State, Church and people to maintain the established order and the ability to raise capital and mergers between symbolic cracks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects upon the reasons and propositions that educational reforms in Argentina have included or excluded the teaching of sociology from the curricula in Secondary School during the last two decades, trying to show differences in perspectives, foci, and especially in the definition of sociology itself. After presenting the experience of sociology at high schools in different countries, this article compares the syllabus applied in both the City and the Province of Buenos Aires, including one designed for an international certificate. This work offers some questions on teaching tasks and student perceptions. Finally, the discussion explores possible political and intellectual reasons of those changes and the potential impact of this teaching outside scholar spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews the recent literature in the field of social sciences in which the term "South" is regarded as a theoretical, methodological or epistemological alternative to the colonial effects of our disciplines. Analysing the books of Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Reawyn Connell and Jean and John Comaroff it seeks to point out some of their fragilities and possible alternative paths for a sociology beyond the Euro-American tradition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to develop a brief reflection on the Teaching of Sociology in Vocational and Technological Education, pointing to possible contributions that science could bring to training in the Integrated Technical High School. The questions put here develop as substrate main theoretical the contributions of Anthony Giddens, as well as considering the purpose of sociology in high school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I aim to analyze the contributions and limits of the concepts of peace and violence proposed by Johan Galtung for the study of violent conflicts. In doing so, I try to emphasize not only their advantages and disadvantages, but also reformulate them in a way that they don´t loose their original meanings. More specifically, I argue that instead of using the concepts of cultural violence and cultural peace, we should use the expressions “meaning in the service of violence" and “meaning in the service of peace". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents some transformations that have arisen with the construction of Washington Luis highway (the BR 040), which cuts most of the suburbs of Duque de Caxias, as well as the interaction of the surrounding population, with those changes. Through analysis of newspaper reports of the year 1950 (inauguration of the highway) and 2013, based on the writings of Henri Lefebvre, along with interviews of local residents are being studied social and physical space in this region, and the same is currently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper elaborates a critical reflection over academic discourse and practice faced with ordinary life. On the one hand, a space reserved for Olympic gods who no longer belong to the space of simple mortals and, on the other hand, the layperson and the ordinary human being. And, through this dichotomic pair - the academic "divine" and the mortal "human" - vectors bearing political powers with sociabilities of/in conflict are formed. Based on the ironical idea that academia is "a republic of good senses", the discussion is devoted towards the ingenuity of the academics who, isolated in the arena of political fights, are not connected to the movements of revitalizing powers concerning the society where they live in. [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 article is a free range discussion which follows a veiled debate about the meaning of the practice of sociology in Mozambique. In this sense, it is a limited debate, but it nevertheless has general characteristics that might be relevance to other contexts. The purpose of this paper is to examine critically the proposition expressed by Carlos Serra as follows: 'there is no sociological point of view outside of you, the senses are yours, yours is the culture you have, yours is the social status you have, the nationality that identifies you in the world, yours is the prism through which to face or want to face life. The criticism is the observation that Serra's proposition waxes an individualistic and relativistic sociology. This preposition refuses the autonomy of sociology as an autonomous field of knowledge with procedures that have been institutionalized in a historical process of building the sociological point of view. Therefore, a sociological point of view is not reducible to the determinism of the individual. The article concludes with the suggestion that it is possible to do sociology from a sociological point of view and to give this view an epistemological place than individualistic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to reflect about the experience of fixity of the body in digital environments and the possible associations between the spatial dimensions of human and nonhuman for the production of presence in a dynamic and space - cyberspace. We propose a hybrid online presence that circulates multiple times in this space, from a sociology of mobility proposed by Bruno Latour. The spatial and temporal scales are presented as the provisional result of the connection between people and objects made from associations. The "be present somewhere" in cyberspace, from the latourian theory, thinking involves an event not only located, but as the product of a flow of associations and locally distributed hyper-localized between humans and nonhumans in mobility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Following the symbolic and economic hegemony of firm's activity, there's the phenomenon of corporatization. Society is increasingly regarded as a firm with diverse social functions transferred to the private tutelage, under the theoretical and ideological intentions of management and its tools. This paper reflects on the sociological characteristics of the management and reengineering, in order to expose the limits of rationality that both express, as well as the ideological representations that guide business nowadays. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to present a brief outline of the theoretical intersections in the short history \"The looking glass. Rough draft of a new theory of the human soul\", by Machado de Assis. It departs from the tradiction of social theory that suggests a sociological syntheses between action and strutcture that is closely linked to the issue of one's construction of identity and subjectivaction, their reproduction and social transformation. [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 study focuses on the establishment of the scientific field of Food and Culture in Brazil, guided by Bourdieu's concepts. We describe the science park corresponding to this field, its geographical and institutional distribution, its insertion in the fields of knowledge, the issues investigated, the qualifications of the researchers, their academic programs and its links with post-graduate studies, their societies and scientific organizations are more specific objectives of this paper. Three areas of social science world are analyzed: "Sociology and Anthropology," "Health" and "Food and Nutrition" which is incorporated into the habitus of its main agent, the researcher of the Health Sciences, reflections, potential and methodological resources from the Social Sciences and Humanities. A woven web of meanings in this meeting place of different knowledge is marked by hegemonic biomedical viewpoint, resents and demands a stronger field of concepts and methods capable of dealing with the complexity of reality and the problems beyond laboratory benchs in life in society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper continues our research study entitled Metalúrgica da Longra (1920-1993): ancoragem para um estudo sob os regimes de acção. It is an historical and social case study treading the line between tradition and innovation, based in the sociology of action and centred in a composite analysis of diverse elements: collective spaces and factory objects, activities and interrelations, paths and strategies of the actors/actants from this emblematic company, seen here as manifestations of compromise/dispute and plans of action, as points of view or as "worlds". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to offer a general perspective on the "victor/vanquished" dichotomy as a result of the new power balance in the period following the Spanish Civil War. The power balance administered by the Franco regime includes, inevitably, the "vanquished" management. I argue that the "victor/vanquished" distinction provides a sociological background to speak about the "two Spains" meta-historical metaphor as a social reality during Francoism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article “The territory’s management in question: a perspective coming from Brazil” is divided into four parts: the first one, destined to the presentation of the initial idea for the analyses at hand, the territory’s management by the National State; the second part demonstrates, by means of inquiries, new contributions from geography, sociology and economy regarding the territory’s social and political potential. Composing the two last parts of the paper, the present positioning for Europe’s territorial planning, in a very tight synergy with the scientific effort, as its influence on Brazilian territorial policies; concluding with the author’s interpretation regarding these innovations under Brazilian perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to investigate and reinterpret singular individuals who have acted against their time, conventions and the moral of their epoch. Others different ways of readapting to the world and the seeking for new possibilities to think the life are some attitudes and expressions of transgression committed by these people. It is emphasized here the figure of vagrant because we are considering that his life is in continuous transformation and renovation. His wander is a kind of creation and transfiguration of his own existence. [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]