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The presence of immigrants in the cultural and artistic labor markets has captured the attention of social scientists. However, to this day, an analysis focused strictly on the socio-professional profiles of artists coming from countries outside of the European Union to Portugal is still lacking in the literature. This article presents a comparative analysis between Portuguese, European Union, and non-European Union artists in Portugal taking both their sociodemographic characteristics and their professional situations into consideration. Census data from 2001 and 2011 allow us to identify a number of similarities and differences between these groups, as well as significant changes across the first decade of the XXI century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An obituary for social scientist and reformer Fátima Patriarca, who passed away in Lisbon, Portugal, on March 11, 2016, is presented.

An interview with Portuguese sociologist Boaventura Sousa Santos is presented. He discusses his political consciousness as social scientist as well as his interest in social problems of the 21st-century society. Particular focus is given to his notion of competent rebellion against conformity. Other topics discussed include the illusion of neutrality in social sciences, his participation in the Fórum Social Mundial, and critics to eurocentrism.

The authors suggest elements for a definition of the culture of free software. They go on to look at the points where two social worlds intersect: the world of advocates of free software and activists in the co-operative movement in Quebec. They analyse points of divergence and convergence between the former's innovative practices in the technological field and the latter's innovative practices in the social field. They put forward the hypothesis that these cross-fertilizations of practices produce new models of social and technological innovation which come close to what some social scientists call ascendant innovation processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]