This research approaches the urban issues causing a consideration about the way of life in cities in the present time, through a survey in Ribeirão Preto, countryside in São Paulo state. We focused the paper on investigating ...

The principal aim of this research is to look for the normative and political construction of illnesses considered ethnic specific, such as the sickle cell anemia, in the scope of the movements and forms of organization ...

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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 work intended to avaluate the implications of “Old-aged National Politics – PNI” in the city of São Carlos, São paulo, in 2003 and 2004. The participation of technicians and the old-aged themselves in the local ...

Entrepreneurship is a term that has been present in the vocabulary of the Economy and the Administration and also in the common sense; however, rarely has been part of researches in social sciences. This dissertation ...

The analysis of the trajectory of the jurists in the period between 1964 and 1969 requires the identification of diverse chains of the same jurists. Three main chains of jurists in this period had been identified the ...

This work intends to characterize the outskirts of a town which I named "countryside outskirts". Based on researches about the way Antenor Garcia´s inhabitants represent and simbolize the relationship established between ...