Sociology in Brazil

Veridiana Domingos Cordeiro is a researcher at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Her current research focuses on social theory, memory, identity and narratives.Hugo Neri is a researcher at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His current research focuses on social theory, sociology of intellectuals, common sense, and risk.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2. Before the 1930s—Interpreting the Nation State: Sociological Imagination in a Pre-Institutionalized Context.- Chapter 3. 1930s–1940s—Institutionalizing Sociology: The Settlement of an Academic and Scientific Environment.- Chapter 4. 1950s–1960s: Sociology in a Golden Era of Consolidation.- Chapter 5. 1964–1985:: The Dictatorship and the Jeopardizing Social Sciences.- Chapter 6. 1985-2000S: Rebuilding Sociology in the New Democracy.- Chapter 7. 2010s—Sociology’s State-of-Art: Graduate Programs, Academic Career, and Journals.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.