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Based on the concepts of Sociology of Absences and Emergencies (Santos, 2006), this article analyzes the relationships between dominant and subordinated epistemologies. The text is constructed from the voices of four subjects from brazilian social movements: two members of black communities descended from slaves, called "quilombos", and two participants of the Movement of Landless Workers (MST). The four testimonials serve as the basis for reflections about the relationship between different types of knowledge, and the appropriation of formal education, as possible paths for the process of social emancipation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to reflect on the importance of a university degree in the labor market. Regarding the profound changes occurring on the economic sphere, the transition of young graduates in the labor market gets a configuration increasingly insecure and unstable.According to that, this article identifies and discusses various aspects which determine the employability of graduates in sociology from the Faculty of Arts of University of Porto, through the data collected in 2006 by Employment Observatory of Graduates in Sociology, and in continuity with the two previous studies which resulted in two articles, conducted in 1998 and 2003, and published in 2001 and 2004 respectively [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rules for student assessment introduced in recent years by the Bologna Process in Portugal led to the gradual reintroduction of attendance evaluation, which increased the interest of its sociological study and raised the question of its classist nature. If both the relationships that social class, and the relationships that regular attendance to lectures establish with academic merit, are well known to sociologists, there is still poor understanding on the relationship between attendance and social class, as well as of the magnitude of the elasticity that the effects of attendance on academic merit have in specific social situations. This study suggests that the amplitude of positive effects brought about by stimulating attendance in Portuguese Higher Education and the social distinction of students are negatively correlated, contrarily to what one might anticipate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The trust, a feeling that comes with life, with the membrane that separates the security and insecurity and individual and social life, is what ensures the commitment more or less risky in the game of exchanges between individuals and society. This article begins by proposing a socio-historical thinking of the classics of philosophy and sociology in this regard. The appeal to the thinking of G. Simmel, in particular, in correlation with his theory about the secret, highlights the impact of trust in terms of social cohesion. Finally, our analysis is structured around key events of today, studying the intricacies of trust in ultramodern societies where the mechanisms of trust seems to be rather fragile. [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]

The research has as its main theme the Portuguese African slavery in America. Through a case study, whose empirical sources are the parish records Matrix Sao José do Rio das Mortes and 9 more chapels additional, as well as a Rol de Confessados de São Joze dated 1795, seeks to examine the representation of slavery; its sociological dimensions, in colonial society. At the same time, it examines the compositions of the African population of the parish and its demographic changes over the second half of XVIII. [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]