Sociology
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
The living past
Ecléa Bosi worked to show that memory is also used to rethink the present
AUDIOVISUAL ARTS
The inner city speaks for itself
Inner city video activists show their own vision of São Paulo
homage
Reviewers immortalized in sculpture
Russian sociologist proposed a monument to honor reviewers
By Redação
URBAN GEOGRAPHY
A life within walls
Gated communities and shopping malls accentuate social and spatial separation
HISTORY
Ways to obtain freedom and survive
Slave women used certain strategies to purchase their freedom
Science & Technology System
Challenges made-to-order
Eighteen São Paulo private institutes conduct research in response to demands
By Fabrício Marques and Bruno de Pierro
Lux Boelitz Vidal
Lux Boelitz Vidal: Collector of cultures
Anthropologist has contributed to the demarcation of indigenous lands
S&T Policy
Challenges made-to-order
São Paulo private institutes conduct research to respond to demands
By Fabrício Marques and Bruno de Pierro
POLITICAL SCIENCE
A difficult relationship
Study shows rising ignorance about the democratic system
By Redação
SOCIOLOGY
Days of fury
More than a million Brazilians have taken part in or attempted an act of lynching
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
The invisible foreigner
Brazilians in the United States avoid being regarded as Hispanics
HUMAN RIGHTS
Motherhood behind bars
The situation of pregnant inmates and incarcerated mothers with newborns
History
The fight for abolition
Study reconstructs the role of the abolitionist movement as a social force
Education
Acquisition of subject knowledge ranks first
Study detects substantial gains in subject knowledge
sewerage
Higher risk of leptospirosis
The risk of contracting leptospirosis in slums is recognizably high
By Redação
Human resources
Women’s odds in academia
A higher ratio of women in a field does not guarantee edge in career level