Roberto Grün

• Abstract

  I'm attempting to demonstrate the potential of the study of contemporary political mythologies on the understanding of the real social and political dynamics. The theoretical inspiration come from the principles of Durkheim's and Bourdieu's sociology whereby the formation and maintenance of social and political groups is built around some shared ideas at the same time solidify the groups …

  Between "PiG" and "Mensalão": analyzing political myths as a way to find connections among the political, cultural, social and economic realities in contemporary Brazil, AP.R

• Abstract

  The aim of the project is to contribute to the economic sociology, showing how the economic concepts are historic and culturally situated and should be treated as the result of cultural and political disputes across societies. To do this, I will build a space empirical from two recent debates in Brazilian society: one around the rules of the law of the financial system in 2003 and one tha…

  Cultural struggles and economic options: toward a sociology of economic debate and its consequences, AP.R
• The new uses of corporate governance in brazil., AR.EXT

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)

• Abstract

  The purpose of the research is to analyze the conceptions of old age that have been disseminated by the economic and business media in the context of increasing longevity of the population. The production of cultural frameworks regarding age reveals that a fact generally assumed as merely natural is actually a historical and social construction. In recent decades, the term best age emerge…

  The social construction of markets and the old age: new cultural sensitivities, new markets, BP.MS

• Abstract

  The objective of this project is analyzing the ideas of State during presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula) governments in foreign policy. We intend to analyze the diplomatists actions of Foreign Policy Department (Ministério das Relações Exteriores - MRE) and Rio Branco Institute (Instituto Rio Branco - IRBr) through the study of two "games": a) …

  Ideas of State in dispute: an analysis of FHC and Lula governments through the diplomacy agent's action., BP.DR

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  This study focus the debate of the media caught scandals that had reached the end of the first Lula administration and have become more pronounced during the 2006 elections. Therefore, I present a literature review and survey of the prosopographical main actors, that have been highlighted in the context of the disputes: on one hand, journalists located in the "printed press mainstream "- …

  SCANDALS, MEDIA AND FINANCES: A study of the cultural and political conflicts that guided the Lula administration and its implications on democratic and economic fields, BP.MS

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)

• Abstract

  This proposal aims enable my acting in Nabuco Chair at Stanford University, in which research will be carried out concerning the sociology of scandals, especially in terms of international comparisons in order to put into perspective the Brazilian situation.

  Stanford University, Nabuco Chair Scandals and Brazilian Society, BE.PQ

• Abstract

  The thesis being made analyzes the diplomacy of the Brazilian state focusing during the transition period between the governments of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula). For this we are studying the actions of diplomats linked to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE) and Rio Branco Institute (IRBr), institutions that have the monopoly on the formulation of…

  Ideas of State in dispute: an analysis of FHC and Lula governments through the diplomacy agent's action, BE.EP.DR

• 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…

  Sociology of cultural and economic disputes from contemporary Brazil, BE.PQ