This line of research focuses on current social transformations and their historical dimension, with reference to their implications for the social structure, for power relationships, and for the constitution of sociabilities and subjectivities. Changes in work, production and social reproduction give new meanings to social action, as well as to the categories of space, time, moralities and identity negotiations. Cities become privileged localities of new social and spatial inequalities, as well as sites of struggle. This line of research includes topics such as globalization, technological innovations and the labor market; professions; creative and immaterial work and reconfiguration of social classes; social actors and collective action; social, occupational and spatial mobility; peripheries and urban social movements, territorialities and migrations; new forms of solidarity, moral markets and religiosity.
LEST-M – Laboratory for Studies on Work, Professions and Mobilities
NEREP – Center for Studies on Religion, Economics and Politics
NaMargem – Center for Urban Research
Professors involved in this line of research
Aline Suelen Pires, André Ricardo de Souza, Cibele Saliba Rizek, Gabriel Feltran, Isabel Georges, Jacob Carlos Lima, Maria Aparecida Moraes, Maria da Gloria Bonelli, Oswaldo Truzzi, Paul Freston, and Samira Feldman
Sociology and Studies on the African Diaspora
NEAB – Center for Afro-Brazilian Studies
Center for Research on Differences, Gender and Sexuality
Research Group on Sexuality, Entertainment and Body
Studies on children, childhood and early childhood education: policies and practices of difference
Professors involved in this line of research
Anete Abramowicz, Jorge Leite Júnior, Maria Inês Rauter Mancuso, Oswaldo Truzzi, Priscila Medeiros, Richard Miskolci, and Valter Roberto Silvério
NAMCULT – Center for Studies on Environment, Culture and Technology
Trama – Land, Work, Migration and Memory
Ruras – Ruralities, Environment and Society
Professors involved in this line of research
Maria Aparecida Moraes Silva, Rodrigo Constante Martins, Rosemeire Scopinho, Samira Feldman, and Richard Miskolci
This line of research examines power in its various macro and microstructural, institutional and non-institutional manifestations, especially insofar as it pertains to the relationship between the state and civil society. Ii includes research on social conflicts, collective actions and social movements; conflict and justice management; dynamics of implementation of social policies; the action of actors and ideas in the negotiation, formulation and implementation of public policy strategies. It also involves the development of studies on the State and its reconfigurations, in the institutional and social sphere, elitist or at its borders, highlighting research on the justice system, policing, prisons and sentencing, security policies; forms of justification; judicial behavior, legal discourses and practices; social construction of violence and crime; citizenship and social control; public policies to fight injustice and inequality; and state ideologies and capacities.
Dissenso – Political sociology research collective
GEVAC – Study Group on Violence and Conflict Management
Center for Studies on Law, Justice and Society
Professors involved in this line of research
Fábio Sanchez, Vera Cepeda, Isabel Georges, Fabiana Luci de Oliveira, Jacqueline Sinhoretto, Cibele Risek, and Maria da Glória Bonelli