Research Areas: Sociology of Memory, Sociologia of Violence, Digital Sociology, Social Theory.
Research Themes: suffering and trauma, disciplinary institutions, autobiographic narratives, knowledge production dynamics, artificial intelligence.
UrbanData-Brasil/CEM is a bibliographic database for monitoring, registering, classifying, and disseminating scientific knowledge about Brazilian cities. Founded in the early 1990s by Prof. Dr. Licia Valladares, since 2014 UrbanData-Brasil has been under the coordination of Bianca Freire-Medeiros. In 2018, the project had links to the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM/CEPID), and currently consists of a team of six Scientific Initiation fellows, as well as collaborators in different stages of their academic careers (ranging from undergraduate to postdoctoral levels).
The NSC is an initiative by Luiz Carlos Jackson, Fernando Pinheiro, Sergio Miceli, and Maria Arminda do Nascimento Arruda and their respective students to create a discussion forum at USP on the Sociology of Culture. The meetings, which have occurred fortnightly since the end of 2015, collectively discuss ongoing researches and academic productions.
Created by Prof. Dr. Fraya Frehse at the Department of Sociology in 2018, NESPSESTE stems from the theoretical and methodological advances accumulated by the Center for Studies and Research in Sociology of Space (NEPSE), which the same professor put into action in the Department in 2011. NEPSESTE brings together researchers interested in sociological and anthropological studies about the spatial and temporal dimension of everyday social practices.
NEV-USP is one of the Research Support Centers (NAP) within the Provost's Office for Research-USP. Created in 1987, it develops scientific research, trains researchers, and seeks to intervene in the Brazilian public debate on issues pertaining to violence, democracy, and human rights.
The LAPS is a laboratory for promoting research within the Department of Sociology of USP and brings together teachers, postdoctoral students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. On the one hand, it socializes Social Sciences undergraduate students in qualitative and quantitative techniques for social research, through short courses, fieldwork, and individual and collective research projects in sociology.
The LES came into existence through grants from the USP Office of Undergraduate Studies and the Department of Sociology. Its purpose is to contribute to the permanent qualification of high school sociology teachers, whether licentiates and bachelors of social sciences or tied to other fields of knowledge. The initiative stems from an understanding that the social sciences offer a decisive contribution to the everyday critical thinking, from macrosocial issue to infinitely small problems.
The GPSECC was created in 2010 and has since focused on debates regarding culture, education, and knowledge, including research from graduate and undergraduate students as well as scientific internship students. Stemming from Pierre Bourdieu's social theory, the research group explores the potentials for a cross-sectional approach to the study of symbolic goods and their economy in contemporary Brazilian society.
