Sociology

Walnice Nogueira Galvão

Walnice Nogueira Galvão: The maiden warrior

She maintains her wise daring in talking about reality and culture

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Sociology

Lights. Camera. Where’s the action?

The many difficulties faced by national movie making to become a film industry

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Manning Marable

Manning Marable: Living black history

Professor argues that re-inventing the past could re-shape the USA's racial future

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Society

Memory and photography

Study shows the memory and the photography as intervention strategy

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Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Fernando Henrique Cardoso: No leniency for deforestation

Society cannot be lenient toward environmental damage

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Political science

With one eye on the fish and another on the cat

Brazilian mistrust of democratic institutions

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Sociology

Snapshots of knowledge

Photography is an additional badly used resource in social sciences

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Cover

Electronic political platform

Contrary to myth, free advertising time works and helps voters

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Cover

The hidden side of violence

One in every ten victims of violence develops post-traumatic stress

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Biography

Workers of Brazil

Doctorate traces the profile of Darcy Vargas, wife of Get

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Sociology

The drunkenness of discovery

Why scientists derive so much satisfaction from their work

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José de Souza Martins

José de Souza Martins: Sociology examining the edges of society, dreams and hope

Sociology examining the edges of society, dreams and hope

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Amazon Region

Forest society

Restructuring underscore new phase of social sciences research program

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Research Funding

New frontier

Expansion of Brazil's ethanol production depends on investment in science

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Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro

Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro: The “undesirable” race

Concern with racial prejudice hides the historical anti-Semitism in Brazilian society

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Alexandre Kalache

Alexandre Kalache: A policy for ageing well

Creator of age-friendly cities says that this issue is important for the country's development

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Sociology

Abortion and the origin of crime

Link between interrupted pregnancies and criminality is denied by academics

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Opinion

James Watson and the four new Horsemen of the Apocalypse

James Watson and the four new Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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Cover

Beside an endless sea

Journalist travels the Brazilian coast and portrays its sore spots

Sociology

The color of the salt of the earth

Quilombolas get legal protection for their properties and revive traditions

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Interview

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz: Almost blacks, almost whites

Anthropologist Lilia Schwarcz discusses the link between science and racism in Brazil

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Sociology

Where danger dwells

How violence conditions the day to day life in tenements of Sao Paulo

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Interview

Bertha Koiffmann Becker: The Amazon without extremism

The Amazon without extremism

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Sociology

São Paulo in the middle of the 20th century

Study explores the relationship between society and culture in the metropolis