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After two decades of being under attack, Brazilian Social Sciences began to construct new paths of development. Foremost among these is a long legislative battle to reinsert Sociology into school curricula, which had became uncritical and conservative during the dictatorship. In academia, Sociology envisioned new paths and topics of work not related to the authoritarian reality. The density of new topics really meant a new shift in the discipline. Thus, this chapter compares the sociological topics researched in the 1980s and then in the 1990s in terms of its theoretical references and its objects.
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As the latter chapters show, Fernando Henrique Cardoso was a famous sociologist during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. In the 1908s, he entered Brazilian politics, while he was president of the International Sociological Association (1982–1986). After being a senator and minister in the early 1990s, he was elected as president of Brazil in 1994.
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Since the dissertation’s data provided by Capes do not contain the subtopic informed by the researcher, this classification was only possible relying on the keywords supplied by the authors. Provided the data have been collected since the middle 1980s we can compare the representativeness in terms of numbers of works of each subtopic in Sociology as a whole. It does not say anything about the relevance of these works, or the reception by the public. A comprehensive work on the network of citations within Brazilian works of Sociology would be very welcome.
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Notice that we have opted to distinguish “Politics”, which includes specific topics like democracy, political processes, elections, parties, from “Bureaucracy, Government & State” which includes bureaucratic institutions, the role of the government, and “Power”. If we merge these categories, the concentration increases we have half of the dissertations produced in Brazil dealing with only seven themes.
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Domingos Cordeiro, V., Neri, H. (2019). 1985–2000s: Rebuilding Sociology in the New Democracy. In: Sociology in Brazil. Sociology Transformed. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10439-9_6
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