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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 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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]