Sociology of cultural and economic disputes from contemporary Brazil

• Grant number: 12/00572-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: April 23, 2012
• End date: July 07, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Principal Investigator: Roberto Grün
• Grantee: Roberto Grün
• Host Investigator: Gisèle Sapiro
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Exatas e de Tecnologia (CCET). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France

Abstract

The aim of the project is to contribute to the economic sociology, showing how the economic concepts are historically and culturally situated and should be treated as the result of cultural and political disputes across societies. To do so, I construct an empirical space from two recent debates in Brazilian society: one around the regulations of the law of the financial system in 2003 and one that continues today around the interpretations and actions reported by the international financial crisis. (AU)