BRAZIL
RESEARCH
The Graduate Program in Sociology at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Since the inception of the Brazilian Graduate Evaluation process instituted by the CAPES Foundation of the Ministry of Education, the graduate program in Sociology at USP has attained the highest assessment grade: A (7). The program’s professors comprise the country’s largest contingent of top-ranked researchers, according to the classification of the CNPq (Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development) for the Social Sciences. Program graduates – a total of 329 M.A.’s and 369 Ph.D.’s awarded to date – are present in the majority of Brazilian universities and research institutions. These results have made USP’s graduate program in Sociology a center for the training of professors and researchers for Brazilian universities, contributing to the institution of other graduate programs and research centers in the country.
In its current format, the program began its activities in 1971, granting students degrees at the Master of Arts and Doctoral levels. However, it is heir to a long-standing tradition that dates back to the Sociology Chairs, which began granting Master of Arts and Doctoral titles in 1945. In that year two students received their Doctoral titles, both of them advisees of Professor Roger Bastide, a member of the French Mission who participated in the constitution of the University of São Paulo from 1934 onwards. The first title of Master of Arts was obtained in 1953 by Fernando Henrique Cardoso, under the supervision of Florestan Fernandes.
Currently, the graduate program in Sociology at University of São Paulo maintains five research lines grouping its 29 professors, assistant professors, and lecturers under five main research areas:
1. Classes, conflicts, and social movements
2. Identities, distinctions, and inequalities
3. Sociological theory
4. Violence, rights, and citizenship
5. Culture, symbolization, and representations
Researchers and areas of interest
Álvaro Augusto Comin: Sociology of Work; Sociology of Development; Social Policies; Labor Market
Angela Maria Alonso: Culture and Collective Action; Social Movements, Brazilian Social Thought
Antônio Flávio de Oliveira Pierucci: Social Actors, Identities and Differences, Sociology of Religions: Sociological Theory
Antônio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães: Race Relations and Inequalities; National, Regional, and Class Identities; Affirmative Actions; Class Formations
Brasílio João Sallum Jr.: Sociological Analyses of Economic Policies, and Political Systems; Capitalism and Social Classes; Latin American Societies
Eva Alterman Blay: Gender, violence, and ethnic identities; Jewish Immigration
Fernando Antonio Pinheiro Filho: Sociology of Culture; Sociology of Art; Social Theory
Fernando A. Albuquerque Mourão: Sociology of Black Africa; Sociology of International Relations
Francisco Maria Cavalcanti de Oliveira: Class Formation in Brazil; Capitalist Development; Social Representations; Social Movements
Glauco Arbix: Social and Economic Development; Industrialization; Labor Processes, and Labor Relations
Heloísa Helena T. de Souza Martins: Labor Relations and Culture; Workers Social Practices and Collective Organization; Youth, Work, and Schools
Iram Jácome Rodrigues: Collective Action, Labor-Unionism, and Regional Development; Sociology of Work; Labor and Unions
Irene de Arruda Ribeiro Cardoso: Time, History, and Imaginary; Sociology and History
José Carlos Bruni: Time, History, and Imaginary; Knowledge, Power, and Society
José Jeremias de Oliveira Filho: Methodology and Epistemology of Social Sciences; Social Theory
José Reginaldo Prandi: Religion Studies; Afro-Brazilian Studies
Leonardo Gomes Mello e Silva: Labor processes and workers practices; Sociology of Labor-Unionism
Leopoldo Waizbort: Social Theory; History of Sociological Thought; Sociology of Culture; Sociology of Art
Lísias Nogueira Negrão: Popular religions and religious institutions
Luiz Carlos Jackson: Sociology of Culture, Intellectuals, and Brazilian Social Thought
Marcia Regina de Lima Silva: Labor Markets; Race Relations; Social Inequalities
Marcos César Alvarez: Violence, punishment, and social controls; Public security policies
Maria Arminda do Nascimento Arruda: Culture and Society; Metropolis, culture, and modernity; Intellectual history; Brazilian Social Thought
Maria Célia Pinheiro Machado Paoli: City, culture, and citizenship; Ways of life and participation; labor processes and workers practices
Maria Helena Oliva Augusto: Sociological Theory; Time, History, and Imaginary; Youth and processes of transition; Health and Society; Public policies and social justice
Mário Antônio Eufrásio: Methodology and Epistemology of Social Sciences; Research and Theory at the Chicago School: Human Ecology, Urban Sociology, Immigration, and Ethnic Relations
Nadya Araújo Guimarães: Labor markets, occupational trajectories, and professional identities; Inequality patterns, gender and race discrimination in the workplaces; Work and unemployment experience.
Paulo Roberto Arruda de Menezes: Art and Society; Sociology of the Cinema and Documentary
Ricardo Musse: Theoretical comprehension of capitalist society; Historical Sociology of Marxism; German sociological theory
Ruy Gomes Braga Neto: Capitalist society and social classes; Latin-American societies; Labor processes and workers practices
Sedi Hirano: Capitalist society and social classes; Latin-American societies; Labor processes and workers practices
Sérgio França Adorno de Abreu: Violence, human rights, social justice, and penal justice; Public security policies
Sergio Miceli Pessôa de Barros: Reflexivity and Sociology of Sociology; Social history of intellectual and artistic life; Compared sociology of intellectual fields in Latin America
Sylvia Gemignani Garcia: Education and society; Brazilian Social Thought; Social history of modern and contemporary university
Vera da Silva Telles: Culture, city, and citizenship; ways of life and participation; Work and city; workers' practices
Datasets
Social Information Consortium site: http://www.nadd.prp.usp.br/cis/index.aspx
This is a system of information exchange that aims to provide support to social scientists. It encompasses databases posted by several Brazilian researchers, and the access is free of charge.
For more information, contact Dr. Antonio Sergio Guimaraes at: asguima@uol.com.br.
Library access, and research seminar information
Contact Dr. Antonio Sergio Guimaraes at: asguima@uol.com.br.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Accommodations, office space, and timing of visit
Contact Dr. Antonio Sergio Guimaraes at: asguima@uol.com.br.
Health Insurance
The US State Department provides extensive information on health insurance for Americans traveling abroad.
Visa information
All the information should be available on the Brazilian Embassy website. If Fellows require an invitation letter for obtaining the visa, the department chair would send one. Fellows should contact Dr. Antonio Sergio Guimaraes for this purpose.
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