Cultural sociology and Violence: Interpreting the Brazilian context

• Grant number: 22/07590-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: January 15, 2023
• End date: July 14, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Principal Investigator: Sergio França Adorno de Abreu
• Grantee: Pedro Callari Trivino Moisés
• Supervisor: Philip Smith
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Yale University, United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 21/06778-0 - Beyond crime: the process of representing hate crimes in contexts of political effervescence (2016-2018), BP.MS

Abstract

This project aims to investigate how the cultural sociology paradigm could be used as a theoretical-cum-methodological tool to interpret the Brazilian 2018 presidential elections, in which a far-right leader rose in the political arena. This effort could be synthetized in two questions: 1) how, with Civil Sphere Theory (CST), we can think about Brazilian democracy and the rise of antidemocratic leaders in the political arena; and 2) how Cultural Pragmatics framing social performances could be used for the study different social representations in this specific polarized context. More broadly, this research proposes an investigation that builds a bridge between cultural sociology and the interpretation of violence phenomenon, approaching the latter in a multidimensional way.