The Seven Faces of Brazilian Society
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چکیده
In this article contemporary Brazilian society is charted as a product of the complementary, as well as conflictive, co-existence of seven institutions: 1) patrimonialism; 2) the rationalizing state; 3) capitalism; 4) social inequality and heterogeneity; 5) the non-cumulative logic of organizations; 6) citizenship; 7) patterns of sociability. These institutions may overlap, complement each other, or clash, depending upon on how social agents utilize them and upon how each institution unintentionally affects the social system. These seven aspects of Brazil are not flip sides of each other but stand largely face-to-face, influencing and contesting each other. Although they do not account for the totality of Brazilian social reality, they constitute basic mechanisms that organize the society and can help shed light on a good part of the processes of integration and social conflict observed in contemporary Brazil.
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