Stuart Hall e a sociologia brasileira: reflexões sobre relações raciais e transformações metodológicas

Abstract

In this work, an investigation was carried out on the theoretical-methodological contributions of the author British-Jamaican Stuart Hall for recent Brazilian Sociology regarding the theme of race relations. Based on national theses and dissertations defended between the years from 2010 to 2021, we start from the proposal that there is a methodological rupture between the tradition of Brazilian racial thought of the 20th century and contemporary sociological production. As central objective, we seek to investigate the influence of the post-colonial author on the production sociological analysis of theses and dissertations defended in the last decade. We use the method of documentary research together with the content analysis technique for systematization and analysis of the collected material. We build on key concepts introduced by Hall, such as identity, decentered subject and articulation, together with notions of difference and in rhizome as a model of thought proposed by Deleuze and Guattari. We observe that when using Hall's theoretical scheme, sociology works acquire a perspective immanent of race categories. The study concludes that by welcoming Stuart's sociology Hall, contemporary researchers acquire a potential decentering for Brazilian Sociology: not only the idea of race, but also its method of incorporating a an ethics immanent in sociological practice.