Elisa Reis

Elisa Reis
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro | UFRJ · Programa de Pós Graduação em Sociologia e Antropologia (PPGSA)

Ph.D Political Science

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Em situações de crise severa, as sociedades são impelidas a duas direções opostas. De um lado, a ampliação das incertezas, das externalidades e das situações de escassez instilam movimentos au-todefensivos em pessoas, firmas e nações. De outro lado, crises severas tornam mais vívidos o sen-timento de interdependência social e criam oportunidades pa...
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Déréglementation, crise économique, tensions sociales, déstabilisation démocratique, guerre : la période 1980-2030 va-t-elle rejouer le drame de 1890-1940, avec en outre la forte probabilité d’être suivie de cataclysmes environnementaux balayant tout sur leur passage dans la seconde moitié du siècle ?La situation paraît chaque jour plus alarmante e...
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Racism is a common occurrence for members of marginalized groups around the world. This book illuminates their experiences and responses to stigmatization and discrimination by comparing three countries with enduring group boundaries: the United States, Brazil and Israel. The book delves into what kinds of stigmatizing or discriminatory incidents i...
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This chapter examines the experiences and responses of Arab Palestinians, Ethiopian Jews, and Mizrahi Jews in Israel to stigmatization and discrimination. It first explains the historical and socioeconomic context for the three groups, taking into account the legacy of Zionism that shapes their experiences, the status of Arab Palestinians in the Je...
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This chapter examines how African Americans residing in New York experience specific incidents of stigmatization and discrimination. It first provides an overview of the background conditions and the place of African Americans in U.S. society in general and in the New York metropolitan area in particular, citing the latter's history of racial tensi...
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This chapter examines the experiences and responses of Black Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro to stigmatization and discrimination. It first provides background information to place the interviewees in their historical and socioeconomic context, taking into account race relations in Brazil as well as the legacy of slavery, the rise and fall of racial d...
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This chapter describes the multidimensional framework used to explain the quotidian experiences and responses of ordinary people to ethnoracial exclusion. The framework analytically distinguishes between three dimensions to make sense of how they influence the ways in which each ethnoracial group (from Brazil, Israel, and the United States) experie...
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This book has examined the nature of stigmatization and discrimination by documenting the experiences and responses of ordinary people who belong to variously stigmatized ethnoracial groups. It has explored how African Americans, Black Brazilians, Arab Palestinians, Ethiopian Jews, and Mizrahi Jews make sense of their predicaments and mold their si...
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Cambridge Core - Macroeconomics - A Manifesto for Social Progress - by Marc Fleurbaey
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Rethinking Society for the 21st Century - by International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) July 2018
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Rethinking Society for the 21st Century - by International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) July 2018
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Social progress needs to be considered from a grounded historical perspective and through a global rather than Eurocentric optic. We are now probably at the peak of human possibilities in terms of social progress but also facing a possible abyss if negative trends are not countered by society. Whether it is global inequality, uncontrolled climate c...
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Formuladores de políticas públicas precisam conhecer bem os determinantes da pobreza e da desigualdade, identificar quais deles têm maior impacto sobre o resultado de interesse e idealizar como a posse ou o acesso a esses fatores podem ser promovidos. Essa demanda por conhecimento estabelece uma ampla agenda científica de enorme relevância social....
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Social progress needs to be considered from a grounded historical perspective and through a global rather than Eurocentric optic. We are now probably at the peak of human possibilities in terms of social progress but also facing a possible abyss if negative trends are not countered by society. Whether it is global inequality, uncontrolled climate c...
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Marc Fleurbaey and colleagues explain why and how 300 scholars in the social sciences and humanities are collaborating to synthesize knowledge for policymakers.
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El artículo tiene como telón de fondo el proceso global de transformación cultural que introduce el concepto según el cual tanto la igualdad como la diferencia son componentes legítimos de la idea de “buena-vida”. El argumento central del artículo destaca que, a medida que el ideal de justicia contemporáneo incorpora estos dos valores (igualdad y d...
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Neste artigo apresentamos resultados de um projeto sobre narrativas e respostas a estigmatizacao e a discriminacao de Negros Brasileiros, Afro-Americanos, e Mizrahim, Etiopes e Palestinos cidadaos de Israel. A comparacao entre Brasil, Estados Unidos e Israel mostra como processos historicos e estruturas socioeconomicas distintas se relacionam com d...
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Neste artigo, parto de uma breve exposição sobre algumas das muitas maneiras de se fazer sociologia política, para ilustrar a diversidade da área. Em seguida, comento uma dessas várias abordagens - aquela que privilegia as análises macro-históricas, salientando a preferência dessa perspectiva pela observação de grandes processos de transformação. P...
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The great changes the world experiences in recent decades have had profound consequences for nation states. Yet, the impact of such changes has been under theorized. This theoretical deficit makes it difficult for us to contemplate the prospects of the historical fusion between national solidarity and state authority. Relevant as the criticisms dir...
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How can differences be understood in social theory through comparisons, and how should social theory relate to regional studies to do so? This question has been prevalent within the sociological field for over a century, but is becoming increasingly important in a globalised age in which cultural borders are constantly challenged and rapidly changi...
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This chapter discusses data from a survey and in-depth interviews on elite perceptions of poverty in Brazil. De Swaan tried to identify the circumstances under which elites are willing to mobilize resources in order to promote poverty reduction. This chapter questions if de Swaan's analysis applies to Brazil. The main finding is that two parts of d...
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The notion that racial mixture is a central feature of Latin American societies has been interpreted in different, if not strictly opposite, ways. On the one hand, scholars have presented it as evidence of weaker racial boundaries. On the other, it has been denounced as an expression of the illusion of harmonic racial relations. Relying on 160 inte...
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Resumo: O artigo combina discussão teórica com análise empírica, em um esforço para discutir mudanças em curso na teoria e na prática. Tomando ideias e ações como componentes entrelaçados dos processos sociais, focaliza-se uma mudança intelectual ampla e uma inovação institucional empírica como fenômenos que se espelham. No nível teórico, aborda-se...
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Most Brazilians believe that racial and socioeconomic inequalities tend to overlap—in other words, blacks are poorer because they have less education and worse jobs. In the past few years, however, several quantitative studies have presented an interesting puzzle: racial inequalities are strongest among those at the top of the socioeconomic hierarc...
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UNU-WIDER gratefully acknowledges the financial contributions to the research programme by the governments of Denmark (Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Finland (Ministry for Foreign Affairs), Sweden (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency—Sida) and the United Kingdom (Department for International Development—DFID). Abstract This pa...
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Summaries The article discusses how Brazilian elites view poverty and social inequality and offers some preliminary comparisons with the perceptions of elites in Bangladesh and South Africa. Based upon survey research, in-depth interviews and newspapers material, it deals with values, beliefs and concrete interests as interrelated dimensions which...
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Summary This paper, following an analysis developed by Stark et al. [Stark, D., Vedres, B., & Bruszt, L. (2006). Rooted transnational publics: integrating foreign ties and civic activism. Theory and Society, 35(3), 323-349] in Hungary, investigates whether NGOs that engage in transnational interactions are becoming less domestically integrated. We...
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Publicado também como capí­tulo 3 em S. Schwartzman, As Causas da Pobreza, Rio de Janeiro, Editora da Fundação Getúlio Vargas. 2004.
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The merger of authority and solidarity that the nation-state accomplished for about 200 years is now threatened by the winds of globalization. As a consequence, the author emphasizes the ways in which the state interacts with both market and civil society are changing significantly. New developments such as the private provision of law and order, t...
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The author calls attention to the need to contemplate systematic spatial comparisons and to embrace an explicit commitment to the analysis of processes with greater determination. In her view, the option for recontextualizing disembodied social players may contribute to a sharper picture of the present day malaise, and hopefully also elicit new int...
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To answer the question "what should be included in the research agenda of the specialist in public policies?" the author chooses to comment on theoretical issues that she thinks should not be neglected. She suggests that the processes of change that pervade contemporary societies make it necessary to introduce changes also in the theoretical and co...
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O que deve integrar a agenda de pesquisa da área de políticas públicas? Este texto reproduz os comentários feitos pela autora a esse propósito. A autora destaca, particularmente, a importância da dimensão teórica subjacente às questões de pesquisa. Sugere, ainda, que os processos de mudança que permeiam toda a sociedade contemporânea impulsionam ta...
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O artigo analisa a visão de setores da elite brasileira sobre a pobreza e a desigualdade. Com base no argumento de que as percepções daqueles que comandam recursos estratégicos afetam diretamente a formulação e implementação de políticas sociais, e amparada por alguns estudos pioneiros realizados na Europa e nos Estados Unidos, a autora se propõe a...
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Little is known about the ways in which the elites perceive the poor, especially in those societies where poverty is most prevalent. The poor are dependent on the elites, but the elites are also affected by the poor: their presence creates negative external effects in the lives of the elites (threats such as crime, contagion, pollution, vagrancy an...
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Contents Introduction: Practical Political Analysis Five Strategic Guidelines 1. Democracy has differential outcomes for the poor 2. States create and shape the political opportunities for the poor 3. There is no reason to expect that decentralisation will be pro-poor 4. There is a wide range of possibilities for pro-poor political alliances 5. Man...
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Ao concluir seu mandato como presidente da Anpocs (1996-98), a autora empreende uma reflexão sobre os desafios contemporâneos às ciências sociais. Argumenta que, ante a magnitude e a profundidade das mudanças em curso, as ciências sociais enfrentam a ameaça de se tornarem supérfluas, incapazes de formular questões relevantes e pertinentes aos probl...
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Entrevista sobre o desenvolvimento da pesquisa e da pós-graduação em ciências sociais no Brasil com dois ex-presidentes da Anpocs, professores Fábio Wanderley Reis (cientista político) e Gilberto Velho (antropólogo), e a atual presidente, professora Elisa Reis (socióloga). As respostas dos entrevistados foram agrupadas em torno dos seguintes temas:...
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Technical bureaucratic neutrality and interest-based party politics have long constituted key issues in political philosophy and political theory. Whenever we emphasize one of these elements, either implicitly or explicitly, we necessarily affect the other insofar as they are intimately linked. Indeed, from a broader perspective, any political cult...
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The book focuses on the mutual implications of bureaucratic neutrality and democracy from the perspective of societies formerly under authoritarian regimes. It explores the impact of democratization on bureaucratic neutrality as well as the implications of neutral bureaucracies for democracy. Theoretical and conceptual dimensions of the subject are...
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There seems to be such a large gap between the bureaucracies of developed and underdeveloped societies that one is often led to think we would need a totally different body of assumptions, concepts and theories to deal with such different contexts. However an attempt is made to defend the opposite perspective here: that is to say, the need for a un...
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Contends that to take the patterns of interaction between the state administrative machine and representative politicians as one of the critical dimensions of the democratizing game in progress, may enhance our ability to understand events and processes which can seem opaque or even contradictory in daily politics. This article discusses two kinds...
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Data & concepts relative to the national integration & identity_building processes in Brazil are discussed. The present situation in Brazil is one of dualism between the modern & affluent sector & the large poor majority, rather than one moving in the direction of a homogenous & integrated society. Social & geographical mobility patterns are examin...
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O PROJETO RETORNO foi uma pesquisa nacional sobre educação superior no exterior, realizada entre 1970 e 1971 pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Relações Intermacionais, em cooperação com o Departamento de Pesquisas da Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública da Fundação Getúlio Vargas. A parte central do projeto consistiu na aplicação de um extenso que...

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