Pedro Vasconcelos

Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon | ISCTE · Department of Sociology

Resumo: As histórias de vida de pessoas trans-masculinas, embora diversificadas, demonstram que a construção da masculinidade não pode ser entendida fora dos efeitos materiais produzidos no e pelo corpo, dentro de uma ordem de género erigida sobre a masculinidade hegemónica. Confrontados com a centralidade dada ao corpo por indivíduos trans-masculi...

Focusing on trans and gender-diverse people in five European countries (Portugal, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Sweden), the Transrights research addressed one of the most challenging transformations of the institutional order of gender that thus far still reproduces the normative opposition between male and female. Rather than pr...

Confronted with the centrality of the body for trans-masculine individuals interviewed in the United Kingdom and Portugal, we explore how bodily-reflexive practices are central for doing masculinity. Following Connell’s early insight that bodies needed to come back to the political and sociological agendas, we propose that bodily-reflexive practice...

Drawing on a qualitative study on migrant men recently arrived in Portugal, this paper examines how the experience of migration leads to the rebuilding of masculinity. The experiences of discrimination and strategies of resistance are linked to the history of Portuguese colonialism and the ways men hailing from contrasting colonial and postcolonial...

A central problem of life course analysis concerns the changes brought about by the pluralization and differentiation of biographies in western societies. Lives would be increasingly dissimilar from each other and marked by a broader range of transitions and stages. Under the lens of life course theorization, the heterogenization of biographies is...

A partir de uma analise qualitativa sintetica sobre homens imigrantes em Portugal, procura-se destrincar as maneiras como as identidades migrantes sao construidas de forma gendrificada, com diferencas relativas a constituicao de comunidades diasporicas especificas (Brasileiros, Cabo-verdianos e Mocambicanos), com origem em diferentes historias colo...

O presente artigo tenta fazer uma breve análise crítica de dois dos conceitos que mais utilização têm vindo a ter em Sociologia e em Psicologia Social: o conceito de habitus proposto por P. Bourdieu e o conceito de «representação social» proposto pro S. Moscovici. Tenta-se demonstrar como ambos são tentativas, disciplinarmente diferenciadas, de sup...

Faced with the confused meanings of the concept of generation, this article defends the need to move from Karl Mannheim's excessive emphasis on political and intellectual self-awareness as a pre-condition for generation formation to an enlarged social and cultural definition of generations. By developing the concept of social generations, we argue...

This article presents two major surveys, carried out in Portugal, on the inclusion of families and individuals in social networks of support and affinity. The first, dating from 1999, sought comprehensively to reconstruct families' social networks by mapping effective support relations. The second survey, fielded in 2009–10, followed a family confi...

An endeavour is made to trace the main development trends in complex family households in Portugal from 1991 to 2001, on the basis of an analysis of census data. To characterise this specific way of organising family life, the internal family structure of this complexity and the social profile of the people involved will be analyzed. Inter-regional...

This article analyses informal support networks in Portugal. Using data from a national survey on families with children (1999), it explores the dynamics of support, in terms of the characteristics of, and variations in, families' experience of support. The analysis underlines the importance of social factors, such as the position of families in so...

O objectivo deste estudo, baseado num inquérito nacional à população portuguesa, foi o indiciamento dos sistemas de valores em torno dos quais mais se identificam as diferentes gerações no contexto da sociedade portuguesa contemporânea. Aborda dimensões como atitudes perante a vida, moralidades e éticas de vida; atitudes perante a sociedade; a esco...

Com base num inquérito nacional aplicado em 1997 a uma amostra representativa da população juvenil portuguesa, o presente volume pretende traçar os perfis sociais dos actuais jovens portugueses. Que projectos e trajectórias os caracterizam, na última década, em domínios como a escola e o trabalho? Que atitudes e modelos de comportamento têm perante...