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Florestan Fernandes and Guerreiro Ramos: beyond a debate

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Author(s):
Tatiana Gomes Martins
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: Campinas, SP.
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Examining board members:
Elide Rugai Bastos; Andre Botelho; Fernando Antonio Lourenço; Priscila Nucci; Rubem Murilo Leão Rego
Advisor: Elide Rugai Bastos
Abstract

The main objective of this thesis was to identify the political debate between Florestan Fernandes and Guerreiro Ramos expressed in sociological interpretations made by the authors from the mid-1950 to the early 1960. Thus, it had as a starting point the texts approaching directly to three specific topics: the role of sociology, development and project of development. It was looked, then, to apprehend the relation of these subjects in the works of the two authors for that period, with their proposals for construction of the Brazilian Sociology and the interpretation of Brazil. It is a cut from which such issues appeared as "sufficiently autonomous" ones, with their own meaning in the works of these authors. However, the interpretation tried to go beyond the authors efforts searching for two additional analytical instruments to that central purpose. First, the research intended to identify the presence of this discussions, intellectual's function, national development and national development project in other authors trying to build a lexicon context. This allowed us, for the purposes of this work, to understand the direction of the arguments of Florestan Fernandes and Guerreiro Ramos in the face of debate that follow these themes. In other words, it was so established the necessary distinctions between the terminologies and formulations that made up the set of theoretical answers to the questions that the Brazilian society placed in those years. Moreover, as a way to highlight the political character of these interpretations, the analysis sought to identify the political projects for social transformation that were behind them and locate them in front of the alternatives of the political and social scene. (AU)