Overview
- Offers the first complete history in English of sociology in Brazil
- Highlights the political and institutional changes that were fundamental to the development of sociology in Brazil
- Presents new research and analysis that maps new developments in Brazilian sociology, publications and centers of production, using qualitative and quantitative data
Part of the book series: Sociology Transformed (SOTR)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- sociology of intellectuals
- Intellectual history
- institutionalization
- Brazilian Social Thought
- Protosociology
- Colonialism
- Social Imagination
- Free School of Sociology and Political Science (ESP)
- Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters (FFCL)
- Vargas Era
- Essayism
- Positivism
- Sociological Canon
- Roger Bastide
- Donald Pierson
- Florestan Fernandes
- Guerreiro Ramos
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Reviews
“The book presents a new and long-overdue account of Brazilian sociology. It is an insightful book of Sociology in a developing country and a milestone for further studies.” (Gehard Preyer, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
“Cordeiro’s and Neri’s Sociology in Brazil is an impressive attempt at demonstrating the existence of significant sociological traditions outside European and American sociology.” (Helmut Staubmann, Professor for Social Theory and Cultural Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology atthe University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Hugo Neri is a researcher at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His current research focuses on social theory, sociology of intellectuals, common sense, and risk.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sociology in Brazil
Book Subtitle: A Brief Institutional and Intellectual History
Authors: Veridiana Domingos Cordeiro, Hugo Neri
Series Title: Sociology Transformed
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10439-9
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10438-2Published: 11 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-10439-9Published: 30 March 2019
Series ISSN: 2947-5023
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5031
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 111
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociological Theory, Historical Sociology, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Latin American History, Intellectual Studies