Sociology Study Notes

When it comes to issues that pervade the area of ​​politics, you may have already realized that a large part of the most common opinions is that the political act is a purely institutional manifestation. In other words, it is believed that the political act can only take place within the mediation of the chambers of … Read more

The modes of production are elements that have marked the whole history. We can say that in life in society, there is always some type of production mode. Although capitalism emerged and consolidated itself as the most important productive system in history, there were many other pre-capitalist modes of production. It is important to emphasize that no mode … Read more

The concept of liquid modernity was developed by the Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman and concerns a new era in which social, economic and production relations are fragile, fleeting and malleable , like liquids. The concept is opposed, in the work of Bauman, to the concept of solid modernity, when relations were solidly established, tending to be stronger and more lasting. Read also: Cave … Read more

In the process of studying a society, Sociology is concerned with a series of aspects that influence the existence of groups of social subjects. These “aspects” or, better said, “mechanisms” are specific characteristics of a social group and serve as a support point for the cohesion of its different members. Among the different support mechanisms of a … Read more

Ku Klux Klan is a group of people who come together under the banner of racial segregation and the belief in the superiority of the “white man”. The Klan was founded as a social club in Pulaski , Tennessee , in 1866, by six university students, initially a fraternity in which its founders dedicated themselves to playing pranks with night rides … Read more

Gilberto Freyre was one of the first and most prominent thinkers in Brazilian sociology . Freyre tried to understand the social relations of Brazilians in the colonial period of our country, seeking to establish a class relationship between masters and slaves for the formation of social relations in the 20th century. For Freyre, there was a kind of cordial and harmonic relationship … Read more