The consumption of piracy in Brazil has grown rapidly, including this country being considered one of the largest consumer markets of counterfeit products in the world. At the same time, Brazil is also one of the top ten luxury markets in the world, producing a contradiction in relation to the luxury fashion products and piracy, arriving on shelves and the consumer's hands almost simultaneously. Some studies ha...
This work tries to analyse the contemporary men's and women's hard effort joined in social ambivalence games. Cities are the place for excellence of tenseness and conflicts materialization created by the difficulty to live with the different as alterity. Despite the geographical, historic, economic and cultural singularity of the cities, on large or small scale, there is a visualization of the processes of soci...
This dissertation seeks to show the role of fisherwomen and seafood collectors among coastal communities in the area of the extractive reserve of Acaú-Goiana, located in the border of the States of Paraíba and Pernambuco. I analyse how women have entered the spheres of work and politics and show the importance of their actions for the social reproduction of their communities. Despite the increasing participatio...
This work aims to understand the impact of new technologies incorporated in fishery production in Barra do Cunhaú and Baía Formosa in the northeastern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte, from the standpoint of fishermen and members of their communities regarding the impact of social changes in the current context of modernization. In this study, I attempt to analyze "the way of life" through the qualitative...
Shopping centers have developed during the decades after the advent of capitalism and became a process of modernity. Shopping does have become institutions of modernity aimed to exert a socializing role of the consumer society. We indicate how to carry out various elements of social control of the institution and the means by which customers perceive and re-do these places through the lens of social facade buil...
In this work one has the intention of discussing the relationship between the Modernity and the search for instituting the legitimate use of violence by State practices. Starting from the point of view according to that it is impossible the socially built reality in materializing the desire for order, welfare, progress and the general will ideal, one approaches the lynchings case and we light them as an example...
In health, the creation of forums as Health Councils and the effect of the decentralization process emphasized by the Constitution of 1988, resulted in higher powers and the increasing importance of the public sphere of municipal administration. However, the participation of Councillors in the process of decision making has been identified as one of the challenging aspects in the work of these committees, becau...
This work intends to analyze the contradiction between new educational paradigms and disciplining on the military police trainning in Paraiba. Its hypothesis is that the humanizing discourse used during the socialization of new policial officers actually hide a control and surveillance process as a new power strategy. The relation between discipline and power is analyzed through an historical analysis of the im...
The objective of this work is to interpret the performance of José Américo de Almeida from a sociological viewpoint, in a context which comprises the period between the years 1920 and 1960. This period was marked by the modernization of industry, political and artistic transformations, and the shaping of Brazilian social thought. We have sought to highlight aspects of the writer s intellectual trajectory which ...
This thesis discusses Pedro Almodóvar s idea of cinema as a producer of new meanings and discursive practices concerning the identities, gender and sexuality. The objective is to reformulate old normative concepts about the biological conditions of the body as decisive factors directly associated to gender and sexuality, as well as its non-historical, permanent and immutable condition that influenced the modern...