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El DN Jovem, suplemento que el periódico portugués Diário de Notícias (DN) comenzó a publicar en mayo de 1983, se convirtió rápidamente en un escaparate para los nuevos prosistas, poetas, fotógrafos e ilustradores. En junio de 1996, año en que el acceso a la Internet en los hogares portugueses no era siquiera el uno por ciento, su contenido migró del papel al online. La transición, determinada por la Administración de DN en el ámbito de una reestructuración del periódico, anunció la muerte de aquel que, según el escritor portugués José Jorge Letria, era "el lugar más importante para la revelación y la afirmación de nuevos valores literarios" en el Portugal democrático. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we have a main goal to give relevant clues on the framing of images in the cultural logic of post-modernism. At the same time, we will give space to a brief description on the relation between post-modernism and flexible accumulation, primary support from where our object comes from. Along with this, we conceptualize central dimensions such as the imagetic transmutation, the primacy of image and the effect of dematerialization induced by the image in the perception of social relations. In this way, a conceptual chain is constituted with the purpose of connecting phenomena and social processes only apparently fragmented such as the productive basis of contemporary capitalism, its cultural reality and the place of image in all that wide framing. From an epistemological point of view, one must highlight that all the theoretical work developed here points out to a parallel relation between material and symbolical domains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper has the theoretical purpose based on the rupture with common sense idea that Portuguese New State would be just an authoritarian regime without any relationship with the dominant classes of its age. In this sense, the aim of this paper is to demonstrate the role of this political regime on the reinforcement of the economic position of the dominant classes at the time. Moreover, the New State assumed a project of capitalist modernization along its existence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This issue of Revista Sociologia devotes a section to the general topic of demographic ageing. The relevance of this topic and the challenges it brought for both the Portuguese society and Portuguese scholars is the triggering element for the compilation of papers that are presented in this issue of the journal. This first introductory paper aims at setting the background for the rest of the contributions and provides a snapshot of the main trends in sociological analysis in Portugal on the topic of ageing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the production and re creation of cities' tourist imageries, noting the effects of tourism in Coimbra and Salamanca. The analysis focuses firstly on the ways cities are presented to the external gaze; secondly, on the urban invisibilities created by tourism activities; and thirdly on the circumscribed and selective nature of tourist cities. Drawing on this line of questioning, the paper pertains to the manner cities use and rebuild their images and significations, rendering them active instruments of urban development strategies. Finally, it assesses the value of heritage for tourist promotion and discusses the creation of new tourist images shaped by the rhetoric of the creativity of the urban space [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I try to reflect about the overlapping of the problematics of school-family relationships and the sociological look about it. I try it through a double historical perspective (necessarily synthetical): a) about the emergence of that problematics, and b) about the emergence of its adoption by sociology. I build, further on, a corpus of Portuguese and foreign works, under book format, that include a contribution about that relationship that I consider to be pertinent, most of them of sociological nature. My analysis, in the second half of the paper, focus on the books that assume home-school relations as the object of study and that include, at the same time, a sociological analysis about it, paying special attention to the Portuguese literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the complex relation between domestic violence and justice. It draws on the analysis of the socially built myths about family and of how they became an obstacle to the intervention of the legal and judicial systems. The paper also provides some analysis about the concept of «syndrome», highlighting its uses in the legal system and describing how the legal system has developed responses to domestic violence in Portugal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an interdisciplinary reflection on the relationship between social network analysis, namely egonetworks, and the funds of knowledge of researchers and teachers of higher education. It is argued that the creation of knowledge and its dissemination can be conceived as and through translation processes. These processes exist through and by means of the funds of knowledge, which can be measured and described, in its structure and content, through personal knowledge networks. Egonetworks can, thus, be defined as epistemic conduits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The moments or events of life when the individuals change home and the duration and conditions of their permanence in such homes contributes in a relevant manner, in the study of social change, to the analysis of the period, generations and age effects, fundamental to the life course perspective. In this paper, these relationships are explored through the life events - professional, domestic or disruptive - responsible for the process of changing home. This analysis is developed with the longitudinal dataset of the Project "Residential Trajectories and Metropolization: continuities and changes in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area" (ISCTE-IUL, Dinâmia-CET), funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) and kindly made available for the purpose of this publication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the project "Encontrar o Outro nos livros" ("Find the Other in books"), implemented in the Elementary School D. Luís de Loureiro throughout the school years of 2012-2013. In addition to characterizing the gypsy community in Viseu, we also describe the project and the activities involved. Finally, we analyze the representations of gypsies in young adult fiction books and we reflect on the role of literature in promoting intercultural education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the criminal practices of Roma individuals through the study of their life histories. Based on 25 interviews addressed to male and female Roma prisoners, we analyzed their objective life conditions and criminal experiences. These were seen in the light of the intersection of class, gender and ethnicity. We conclude that the crimes in this ethnic group are the result of combined processes of exclusion and social inequality, prejudice or racism, and that the intersections of class, gender and ethnicity strongly structure their objective living conditions and their criminal involvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering the social and political changes that took place in Portugal, from April 25, 1974, specifically provided since the democratic system was implemented, became effective an understanding that advocates universal citizenship for all Portuguese. However, not all citizens are in equal circumstances on full access to the rights of citizenship. The objective of this paper is to reflect and discuss some of the impacts of measures and social policies on Gypsies people and families, as well as the (in)visible changes, although the underlying behind the plural processes of social and identity reconfiguration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relationship between the classroom and the juvenile environments outside the school is analyzed in this paper taking into account some apparently disparate elements in the everyday life of young students. The impact of new ICTs in social processes requires a different insight to youth cultures and capitalize some of these elements to enrich an analysis of the changes in the pedagogical relationship, given the permeability of school concerning those rapid transformations. Thus, we propose the construction of a typology of actors according to the different arrangements of autonomy, relationship with rules and authority, closeness to the teacher and the new informational practices of the students surveyed, allowing an articulated understanding of social processes that shape new challenges for the contemporary school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents some elements that characterize the recent restructuring of production in Brazil, with emphasis on its impact on the process of casualisation and design of the new morphology of labour. We present a phenomenology of informality in Brazil and later the main trends of productive restructuring in relation to the world of labour with the automotive, telecommunications and telemarketing, banking, textile and dress-making, footwear, artist sector and informal workers, seeking to understand your drawing multiform regarding the world of labour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we present and discuss results from a research study done on a sample of 1134 young students from secondary education, of both genders, aged between 12 and 19 years, enrolled in 5 schools located in the North of Portugal. We identified the categories that compose the system of social representations on disability, and their respective weight in this system. The results suggest a system composed of central and peripheral representations. This shows that in the representations of young students predominates a trend to associate disability with a negative connotations. This indicates the necessity to develop educational policies and training to support the process of building an inclusive society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tries to explore the strategies of integration of gender mainstreaming and specific actions to support equality of women and men in the operational programs (OPs) of the European Social Fund (ESF) and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Perspective the integration of gender issues in programming, giving themselves known how gender equality was designed based on the Planning Strategic Reference Framework and seat regulations implementing the ESF and ERDF. The results presented are derived from analyzes produced on the strategic documents available for each PO. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With a view towards enriching the scientific problem of collective action, this paper discusses the importance of Pierre Bourdieu's and Nicos Mouzelis' theoretical views and their ability to raise new questions about the dominant paradigms and theories of collective action. It is based in the productive area of the theories of practice and social hierarchies, the centrality that ultimately give a perspective of social inequalities -- an approach as important to the study of collective action -- and justification for the heuristic accuracy of the concepts of social class, fields, social interaction, collective actors and institutions, for the understanding of the dynamics of collective action in contemporary societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Few years after the advent of the Internet, began the first studies on dependence of the web. Episodes of isolation and self exclusion from social life have been worrying scholars around the world, and the fact that the Internet promotes dependence has generated discussion. But it is possible that the online that encourages dependency and isolation of individuals? This is the central question that will guide the discussion of this paper. To answer, this study presents a cross between a requirement that users have to have contact with the Internet and attractive promotion of dependency on virtual spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Integration is the set of processes of constitution of a society from the combination of its components, be they people, organizations or institutions. In modernity, the question of integration is of particular relevance due to the processes of individualization and differentiation, which are reflected in an increase of those components. This paper conceptualizes the processes of differentiation and individualization, and discusses its consequences in terms of social and systemic integration of modern societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Changes and identities represent one of the thematic axes of the work of Lídia Jorge - a key figure in contemporary Portuguese literature. Be it at a regional level - the Algarve - be it at a national level, the 10 novels published by Jorge from 1980 to 2010 consider the crossroads faced by Portugal, its urban areas and its rural communities, as a major issue. In doing so, the novelist provides an in-depth assessment of structural transformations and challenges the Portuguese have to deal with. Such an interpretation cannot be ignored by sociologists. The paper presents an attempt to consider Jorge's elaboration from a sociological point a view. This means an attempt to foster a dialogue between the two kinds of portraits - the one drawn by literary creativity and the one drawn by sociological analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The quality and adequacy of housing confer a fundamental requirement for older people. An increased influence on the independence, health and social dynamics experienced by the elderly it is performed by these conditions. Nevertheless, countries such as Portugal present a lack of effort and targeted policies that encourage the adoption of the "aging in place" paradigm. This paper presents a brief review of scientific literature, discussed the current Portuguese conjecture on this problem and presents an analysis based on the best practices in Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering the current centrality of active ageing in contemporary socio-political and academic discourses, and the shortness of available scientific questioning on the complexity of what the term "active" comprises, this paper pays attention to the understanding given to the concept since its allocation in health discourses to the prominence given to its economic and productive conception. Based on studies that critically focus on the hazards and constraints of the active ageing model, we discuss the need for recognizing the subjectivity inherent to the concept while recognizing, in an equilibrated way, both the social contribute and the personal impact of the activities considered for its definition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Working life plays a central and vital role in human life. For many people, it is the most significant activity in their lives. The importance of work in everyday life explains why the occurrence of retirement and the retiree condition are likely to generate a set of perceptions, expectations, feelings and behaviors with different consequences at the individual's level of satisfaction and psychological well-being, relationship with others, daily life activities and even personality. Retirement is a genuine developmental turning point on which this paper focuses either in terms of factors involved in retirement transition and in terms of adjustment process to retiree experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the complementarities and setbacks regarding the invention of Mouraria quarter, in Lisbon. The focus is on the attempts to (re) invent the neighborhood, by proposing technical and urban interventions that plaster urban identity and symbols, especially enhanced through the idea of 'plural' and 'cultural' city. It also explores the hypothesis that the ambiguity and ambivalence, as the interconnections between the processes of emblematic and territorial stigmatization, are central to the interpretation of the 'polyphonic' reality of this particular neighborhood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to briefly present Sociophysics, a discipline that in recent decades has been emerging on the borders between Physics and the Social Sciences. As an illustration of its approach, we will review some opinion formation models, focusing on the conditions under which a society is more sensitive to the penetration of an external message. In particular, we will see that it is easier for a message to be commonly accepted in a society characterized by conflicts - which recalls the old maxim "divide and conquer". We conclude by suggesting that the construction of this new field of knowledge requires a union between sociologists and physicists that goes beyond a simple juxtaposition of knowledge [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that one could move forward a new science paradigm, considering that the post-modern science paradigm has actually been a transitory stage in the evolution of science perceptions from a science essentially based on a dilemmatic thinking to what is here called the contemporary science. The argument advanced here is that there is an emergent paradigm of science that, in its core, results from the introduction of another complex concept - utopia. This article will explore how this is possible and will also identify other elements that coexist with each other or overlap within this paradigm. The intention here is to tease out three "archetypes" that will assist and promote analysis and discussion of the conceptual and practical development of science in relation to each individual and in a public sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to propose an approach to a process of ostracism, considering the nature of its starting point, its forms of expression and its evolution in a specific social time and space. The main focus of the analysis is a characterisation of the strategies built by the ostracized subject in order to undermine the mentioned process, namely through the conviviality net he weaves and the related activities he engages in. A detailed diary left by the ostracized subject is the document base on which this article is grounded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Following the symbolic and economic hegemony of firm's activity, there's the phenomenon of corporatization. Society is increasingly regarded as a firm with diverse social functions transferred to the private tutelage, under the theoretical and ideological intentions of management and its tools. This paper reflects on the sociological characteristics of the management and reengineering, in order to expose the limits of rationality that both express, as well as the ideological representations that guide business nowadays. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Television is an important media, both in the sphere of entertainment, as in the sphere of information. It is precisely on the latter that we will lean on throughout this paper, based on an investigation anchored in the analysis of the content and structure of forty-six emissions of prime time television news of two Portuguese television channels - RTP1 and TVI - through which we tried reveal the main similarities and asymmetries between them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on issues analysed in previous investigations (Melo, 2009 e Melo, 2010), this paper presents a research program proposal enabling the detection of «teacher effects» that may express good organizational and pedagogical practices in Educational Priority Areas (EPA). Accordingly, three lines of investigation are suggested: i) analysis of teaching-learning relationships in EPA and variables that may characterize a «good teachers»; ii) identification of types of organizational culture and models of managing and leadership; iii) study of student's representations toward the pedagogical strategies of their teachers. Finally, an appropriate mixed methodological strategy is pointed out in order to obtain results that may encompass the whole universe of EPA schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The social access to school education has taken place, from its outset, in contexts that are far from being considered uniform. Most recent research, especially the one carried out in the English speaking countries, has been demonstrating for the last three decades the existence of school effects in the pupils' schooling. Studies of a similar nature are, however, scarce in Portugal, even though an increasing number of factors combine to make school contexts gradually more visible, in what concerns both education policies and the social actors' strategies. This paper seeks to reflect upon the segregation phenomenon as it is shown by the way pupils are organised in school, as well as upon its impact on the pupils' school experience. In order to accomplish these goals, we handle the issues within the theoretical framework of sociology of inequalities in education, and adopt an articulated vision of school and family dynamics and strategies, in line with the concept of social composition. The second part of this study presents the results of a research that we have been conducting in the Autonomous Region of the Azores, which suggest (i) a substantial differentiation of contexts on the basic11 education level; (ii) an increase in this phenomenon; (iii) a potential impact of school differentiation in the pupils' experience, since the context tends to determine school expectations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the school pathways of immigrants' children and their native classmates in lower secondary education. It covers variables such as the place of birth and nationality of the children and their parents, the parents' social class and schooling, academic experience and aspirations and expectations in school. The results indicate that national origin, after controlling the effect of the socio-demographic variables, has little impact on the students' school pathways and that the parents' academic qualifications and the students' sex are more relevant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses the culture of violence. To analyse this question we participated in an action research project in school context, teaching formal lessons of Civic Education and developing a sociological research not only about school violence practices in classrooms and playgrounds, but also about students' perceptions of school violence and gender violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the relationship between the concept of 'academic community' and the context of the transformations of the modes of knowledge production. In the first and second section we will propose an operational definition of 'academic community' and discuss the relationship between this definition and the transformation of the modes of knowledge production - Mode-1 and Mode-2. Thirdly, we will focus on the discourse of three key-actors in the context of the Portuguese academy. It will be argued that the concept of 'academic community' emerges as 'fuzzy' one, remaining unclear 'who' is the 'academic' or by 'whom' is constituted the 'academic community', and that we are witnessing the reconfiguration of the concept of 'academic community' as knowledge is being recomposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyse the concept of consumer in relation to the concepts of habitus and reflexivity. We depart from the microeconomic perspective as well as rational choice models in order to question rational choice and insatiability issues. We believe that the consumer is multi-determined and multi-faceted by both the diversity of socialization and interaction contexts. The empirical analysis focuses on expenditure lists in order to identify distinctive features in accordance to descriptive variables and to emphasize the relevance of the dichotomy between practical and reflective habits. New hypotheses emerge from the analysis of the constrained relationship between consumer practices and types of reflexivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The emergence and development of the Portuguese welfare state and the debate on poverty and social policies are marked in Portugal, as elsewhere, by a set of social and economic dimensions, but also a set of ideological and conceptual aspects. This paper discusses the emergence of the main concepts and authors on that debate. We also discuss the Portuguese case, in historical, legal and theoretical terms, regarding a social policy in particular, the Minimum Income, later called Social Insertion Income. Finally, we analyze the role of this politics in strengthening (or not) the (almost) Portuguese welfare state, as well as the prospective paths that can be drawn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]