The main purpose of this essay is to investigate the major factors that had influenced the creation of Secretaria de Educação Continuada, Alfabetização e da Diversidade (SECAD), one of the units of Ministério da Educação ...

In urban Brazil, environmental problems have multiplied and have impacts in the worse conditions of living. The social sciences fall into this debate with the understanding that environmental problems arise as a result of ...

This thesis aimed at analyzing the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) organizational practices and its power relationships within the State of São Paulo campsites and settlements. MST acquired a never before seen dimension ...

This case study aims to analyze the participation of the city of São Carlos at the Constitutionalist Movement of 1932. It begins from a theoretical reference which allows to understand the main political groups that ...

This research focuses on the way local institutional political power relates to new institutional actors, especially non governmental organizations (NGOs), in a northeastern town in the state of Paraiba, between 1994 and ...

This dissertation has the general objective of contributing to the theoretical and empirical comprehension of the implications of the internet for democracy and electoral processes. We analyze the cyberparadigms and the ...

The work presented here was originally proposed as an ethnography of the production of television entertainment. As a first issue, it aspired to understand the way the TV is thought by those who produce it daily. Electing ...

The present work examine, historically, all the Brazilian period republican observing practical of advantages politics that had been present in the sphere politic to analyze the performance of the gospel members of the ...