Graduate Courses

Faculty

Alvaro Comin

Research Area: Sociology of Development

Research Themes: labor market; social policy; education

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: alvaro.comin@gmail.com

Ana Paula Hey

Research Areas: Sociology of Elites; Sociology of Education; Sociology of Power

Research Themes: academic/scientific elites; elites and the State; intellectuals/experts; culture and power; the field of power in Brazil; symbolic markets (higher education; knowledge production; think tanks; private foundations)

Link(s): Lattes 

E-mail: anaphey@uol.com.br

Angela Alonso

Research Areas: Political Sociology; Historical Sociology

Research Themes: the relationships between culture and political action; political movements; intellectual movements

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: amalonso@usp.br

Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães

Research Areas: Afro-Brazilian Studies; Sociology of Race Relations; Social Stratification

Research Themes: identity (race; region; nation); racism; racial inequality

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: asguima@usp.br

Bianca Freire-Medeiros

Research Areas: Urban Sociology, Sociology of Mobilities

Research Themes: transnational mobilities; urban; tourism; leisure; consumption

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: bfreiremedeiros@usp.br

Brasilio Sallum

Research Areas: Political Sociology; Sociological Theory; Social Stratification

Research Themes: democracy; impeachment; Brazilian politics

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: brasallu@usp.br

Edison Bertoncelo

Research Areas: Social stratification; Sociology of Culture; Political Sociology

Research Themes: social classes; life styles; inequalities; cultural tastes and practices; collective action; political behavior

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: edison.bertoncelo@usp.br

Eva Blay

Research Areas: Urban Sociology; Sociology of Gender Relations; Sociology of Immigration (Jewish)

Research Themes: city; worker housing; women's political participation; violence against women; feminism and masculinity; Jewish immigration

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: eblay@usp.br

Fernando Pinheiro

Research Areas: Sociology of Culture; Sociological Theory

Research Themes: cultural production; literature; arts

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: fepf@usp.br

Fraya Frehse

Research Areas: Sociology of the City; Sociology of Space (and the Body); Sociology of Everyday Life; Historical Sociology

Research Themes: urban theory; body, public space and urbanization; social inequality/poverty and urban (public) space; intersectionality and space; space and time in sociology; urban sustainability und public space; homelessness; cultural heritage; urban visual culture; sociology of everyday knowledge; social thought about the city in Brazil.

Link(s): Lattes | Academia | ResearchGate

E-mail: fraya@usp.br

Glauco Arbix

Research Areas: Economic Sociology; Industrial Sociology

Research Themes: technology; innovation (theory); internationalization; industrialization

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: garbix@usp.br

Laurindo Dias Minhoto

Research Areas: Sociology of Law; Sociology of Punishment

Research Themes: critical theory; Brazilian social thought

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: ldm@usp.br

Leonardo Gomes Mello e Silva

Research Area: Sociology of Work

Research Themes: trade unionism; productive restructuring; work qualification

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: leomello@usp.br

Leopoldo Waizbort

Research Areas: Sociological Theory; Sociology of Culture; History of Sociology; Historical Anthropology; Sociology of Music

Research Themes: Brazilian social thought; culture

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: waizbort@usp.br

Luiz Jackson

Research Area: Sociology of Culture

Research Themes: Brazilian social thought; Latin American social thought

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: ljackson@usp.br

Marcia Lima

Research Areas: Sociology of Race and Ethnic Relations; Gender Studies; Sociology of Education

Research Themes: racial inequality; racial relations; gender and race; education; labor market; affirmative action policies

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: mrlima@usp.br

Marcos Alvarez

Research Areas: Sociology of Punishment; Sociology of Violence; Historical sociology; Social Theory; Research Methods in Sociology

Research Themes: punishment; social control; violence; deviance; human rights; Brazilian social thought

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: mcalvarez@usp.br

Maria Arminda do Nascimento Arruda

Research Areas: Sociology of Culture; Sociology of Literature; Sociology of Art; Sociology of Mass Communication; Sociological Theory

Research Themes: intellectual, artistic, literary and mass-communication production; Brazilian social thought

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: arr@usp.br

Maria Helena Oliva Augusto

Research Areas: Sociology of Health; Sociology of Youth; Sociological Theory

Research Themes: individual and individualism; modernity and contemporaneity; social time, youth and transition processes; public health; public health and social policies

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: mhoaugus@usp.br

Nadya Araujo Guimarães

Research areas: Economic Sociology; Sociology of Work

Research Themes: economic change, restructuring of companies and workers' trajectories; gender and race inequalities in the labor market and workplace; unemployment, job seeking and job intermediation mechanisms; new employment relationships and their theorization; care; care workers

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: nadya@usp.br

Paula Marcelino

Research Area: Sociology of Work

Research Themes: labor market; work (precariousness); work and gender; trade unionism; social class; productive restructuring; neoliberalism

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: prpmarcelino@gmail.com

 

Paulo Menezes

Research Areas: Sociology of Cinema; Sociology of Art

Research Themes: cinema; documentary cinema; visual arts; epistemology of the image; image and social sciences

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: paulomen@usp.br

Reginaldo Prandi

Research Areas: Sociology of Religion; Quantitative Methods in Sociology

Research Themes: Afro-Brazilian religions (Candomblé and Umbanda); Catholicism; Kardecist Spiritism; Pentecostalism; sampling and quantitative data analysis

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: rprandi@uol.com.br

Ricardo Mariano

Research Area: Sociology of Religion

Research Themes: Pentecostal movement in Brazil; partisan political activism and evangelical electorate; secularity; State secularism; religious parliamentary activity in Brazil; Pentecostalism and Afro-Brazilian religions; religion, conservatism and elections; Catholic concordat; General Law of Religions 

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: rmariano@usp.br

Ricardo Musse

Research Areas: Sociological Theory; Social Theory; Philosophy

Research Themes: critical theory of society; sociology of Marxism; social theory; sociology and philosophy in Germany

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: rmusse@usp.br

Ruy Braga

Research Areas: Sociology of Work; Political Sociology

Research Themes: work (precariousness); labor market; populism

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: ruy.braga@usp.br

Sedi Hirano

Research Area: Sociology of Development 

Research Themes: inequality; poverty; labor; violence; migration; Latin America; East Asia

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: sedihi@usp.br

Sérgio Adorno

Research Areas: Political Sociology; Sociology of Violence

Research Themes: violence; human rights; urban crime; social control; social conflict

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: sadorno@usp.br

Sergio Miceli

Research Area: Sociology of Culture

Research Themes: Brazilian social thought; Latin American social thought

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: zaem@usp.br

Sylvia Gemignani Garcia

Research Areas: Sociology of Education; Sociology of Culture; Sociology of Knowledge

Research Themes: university; higher education; knowledge; scientific knowledge

Link(s): Lattes

E-mail: sylgemig@usp.br

Vera da Silva Telles

Lines of research: cities: interactions, inequalities and socio-spatial (im)mobilities

Research Area: Urban Sociology

Themes: urban practices, trajectories and territories; modes of governing popular territories: frictions, disputes, conflicts; transnational migrations and urban circuits of spatial mobilities; urban illegalisms, illegal and informal markets of land and labor

Current Project: “Cidade, gestão de populações e conflitos”

Research Group: City and Work (PPGS-USP) | Social Research Laboratory, LAPS-USP

Links: Lattes | academia.edu

vstelles@usp.br | vs.telles@gmail.com