Modern Society and Culture in Brazil

The establishment of modern sociology in Brazil was part of a thoroughgoing modernization of the country that began in the 1930s and the years immediately following World War II. The founding of the University of São Paulo made possible the systematic training of scientists devoted to teaching and research and broadened the way learning was understood. Florestan Fernandes was the outstanding personality among the first social scientists that the university produced, and the picture of the Brazilian sociologist today is largely inspired by his career. Enthusiasm and scientific rigor were the hallmarks of his approach. His early work reflects intellectuals' shared belief in the power of ideas to regenerate the nation, freeing it from a past that they condemned. The mature reflection of his later works retreats from this optimistic view, recognizing the emergence of modern society in Brazil as a complex process with mixed results

Art · Enthusiasm · First world war · Humanities · Modernization theory · Personality · Political science · Power (physics) · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · World War II · Law · Psychology · Social and Economic Solidarity · Social Psychology · Sociology and Education in Brazil · Urban and sociocultural dynamics

• Vida E História Na Sociologia De Florestan Fernandes

  Open Access•José De Souza Martins•Revista USP•1996

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• Florestan

  Open Access•Lucia Lippi Oliveira•Revista Brasileira de Ciências…•2000

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