Diogo Valença de Azevedo Costa, Eliane Veras Soares

Florestan Fernandes' Critical Sociology (eBook, ePUB)

A Social Theory of Brazil and Latin America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book intends to familiarise the reader with the political and sociological thought of Florestan Fernandes, covering the range of his research themes and socialist militancy between the 1940s and 1990s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000998368
• Artikelnr.: 69043626

Autorenporträt

Diogo Valença de Azevedo Costa is Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB). His research interests are the sociology of knowledge, sociological theory, sociological thought in the Third World (specifically Latin America and Africa) and Marxism in Latin America. He has contributed as editor and author of chapters in the collective work Florestan Fernandes: trajetória, memórias e dilemas do Brasil (2021).

Eliane Veras Soares is Full Professor at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). She is interested in the area of social thought in Brazil. She is the author of Florestan Fernandes, o militante solitário (1997) and co- editor of the book Florestan Fernandes: trajetória, memórias e dilemas do Brasil (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor Forword by Adrian Scribano
Introduction
Part I: From the lumpen social environment to the University of São Paulo
1. The lumpen style of thought
2. The trajectory of Florestan Fernandes at the University of São Paulo
(USP)
3. Sociology in Latin America or Latin American sociology?
Part II: The construction of Florestan Fernandes' critical sociology: from
Brazilian "social dilemmas" to the category of "dependent capitalism" in
Latin America
4. The construction of "critical and militant sociology": from folklore to
race relations
5. Sociology of development, sociological theory and education: the social
sciences Latin Americanization in the 1950s and 1960s
6. The "committed sociology" and the Latin American intellectual networks
of Florestan Fernandes: struggles around public education, underdevelopment
and dependent capitalism
Part III: Brazil and Latin America in a socialist perspective: racial
dilemma, dependent capitalism and bourgeois autocracy
7. The Latin American Marxism of Florestan Fernandes (1970-1995)
8. A new social theory of Brazil and Latin America: the lumpen perspective
of Florestan Fernandes
By way of conclusion: the renaissance of critical and militant sociology