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Para o presente livro foi elaborado um inquérito por questionário cujo instrumento para a recolha da informação empírica considerou um conjunto de perguntas sobre o mercado de trabalho e as perceções acerca do sistema de Segurança Social, além de questões necessárias para a obtenção do perfil sociodemográfico dos inquiridos. A aplicação do question...
Portugal has been confronted with a succession of crises in recent years. This article explores the differences in the way that, in Portugal, the welfare regime tackled the Great Recession context (financial, euro, sovereign debt, structural adjustment crises) and COVID‐19 crisis through very different policy responses. The fact that the government...
In the aftermath of the Great Recession, the gig economy expanded in Portugal as an alternative form of income generation to overcome the accumulation crisis, especially in the tourism sector. One component of this, less well studied than platform labour in the delivery and accommodation sectors, was the introduction of tuk-tuks, or auto-rickshaws...
This book presents and discusses, from a theoretical-methodological point of view, the composition of eight sociological portraits developed within the scope of a research project in Portugal. These are the lives of workers in a work situation marked by recurrent forms of social lack of protection, contractual instability and uncertainty in the fac...
This chapter addresses the emergence of an abstract concept of time: time as disentangled from events. Stemming from late medieval to early modern times, this understanding of time has since been consolidated by the progress of industrialized production and the transformation of the concept of labour into abstract labour. Time calculated in working...
Several international organizations, as well as worldwide scholarship, have abundantly shown that young people under 34 are among the groups struggling the most with COVID-19 economic and social impacts. Seldom, however, does scholarship focus on the uneven effects of the pandemic on younger generations across different types of territories. Overal...
A pandemia originou um conjunto de impactos de diferentes magnitudes no território. Este artigo apresenta uma abordagem exploratória para compreender como a existência de determinadas vulnerabilidades no momento pré-crise conduziu a diferentes impactos nos territórios em Portugal. Partindo da escala municipal, a análise define uma tipologia de terr...
This chapter addresses the emergence of an abstract concept of time: time as disentangled from events. Stemming from late medieval to early modern times, this understanding of time has since been consolidated by the progress of industrialized production and the transformation of the concept of labour into abstract labour. Time calculated in working...
A insegurança permanente e a desproteção social tornaram-se estruturais no mercado de trabalho. A pandemia de COVID-19 revelou e agudizou estes processos, que se encontram na origem da acumulação de múltiplas vulnerabilidades socioeconómicas,
relacionais e existenciais. O período de confinamento conduziu a situações de estagnação laboral e as desig...
The Great Confinement affected the labour market, particularly the dynamics of unemployment. Based on Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional (IEFP) data on registered unemployment, this article analyses the impact of the pandemic crisis in unemployment situations in mainland Portugal. The categorical and territorial distribution of the unempl...
The digital PDF of the Introduction of this title are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The word ‘precarity’ is widely used when discussing work and employment, social conditions and lived experiences, and social classes. There is not, however, a consensus on the precise meaning of the term or how it should best be used to explore so...
The words ‘precarity’ and ‘precariousness’ are widely used when discussing work and employment, social conditions and lived experiences. However, there is no consensus on the precise meaning of these terms or how they should best be used to explore social changes. This book shows how scholars have mapped out the notions of precarity and precariousn...
Os cidadãos são a razão de ser dos serviços públicos. A pandemia de Covid-19 realçou a sua importância, mas também revelou insuficiências e a necessidade de os reforçar. Este artigo analisa um conjunto de experiências relacionais de trabalhadores vulneráveis com os serviços públicos, em particular com os serviços de emprego e segurança social, saúd...
Albernoa é o nome de uma aldeia alentejana situada na região do Baixo-Alentejo (Sul de Portugal). Esta se encontra num processo acentuado de despovoamento e de envelhecimento (ao longo das últimas quatro décadas). Essas tendências acompanham o decrescimento ocorrido na actividade agrícola. Ao mesmo tempo identificámos alguns indicadores de dinamism...
Rapid advances in technology brought dramatic changes into the labour market, regarding precarious, flexible and informal work. The gig economy has enabled new forms of labour exploitation, social exclusion, intermittent and vulnerable professional trajectories. Not having fully recovered from the Great Recession, the Portuguese society is crossing...
This article shows that, while the pandemic lockdown decelerated everyday life, it has also potentiated further acceleration of the platformization of urban economic sectors. We show this through an empirical qualitative study of the restaurant sector in Lisbon, in which we found that: (i) the digitalisation of three management tasks during the COV...
There is increasing concern regarding the inequalities produced by digital platforms based on volunteered geographic information (VGI). Several forms of inequalities have been observed, namely the unequal spatial coverage and the uneven levels of usage even in territories with good coverage. However, VGI platforms under the logic of platform econom...
A crise financeira de 2008 e o impacto da pandemia da Covid‑19 aceleraram um clima de mal‑estar social e económico que, entre outras tendências, assenta na precarização laboral, no desemprego e na nivelação por baixo do valor e do direito ao trabalho protegido e bem remunerado.
O Trabalho aqui e agora olha de forma multidimensional para as dinâmic...
This paper analyses the networks, experiences and aspirations of Nepalese workers in Southern Portugal's farms and greenhouses. The main research objective is to analyse how recruitment networks, which supported the move of Nepalese to Portugal, were established and have rapidly consolidated. These networks impacted not only the increase of irregul...
This article aims to provide a more detailed conception of the production of urban digital divides by VGI platforms in the context of the platform economy, through the articulation of the first (access and coverage), second (usage and skills) and third (outcomes) level of the digital divide. Our conceptual approach departs from a discussion of the...
This article aims to present a concise perusal of the different approaches developed in the study of social inequalities and in the relationships that they establish with manifold social processes and problems. The text does not intend to be exhaustive from the theoretical point of view, but rather to present an overview of the analytical complexit...
In individual terms, unemployment situations cause both a destructuring of daily life practices and a loss of resources and socioeconomic conditions that were previously taken for granted. This is a vulnerable situation that results simultaneously in forms of disaffiliation and social disqualification, with consequences in the rise of poverty and s...
After over a decade of the austerity measures that followed the 2008 financial crisis—entailing severe, unpopular policies that have galvanized opposition and frayed social ties—what lies next for European societies? Portugal offers an interesting case for exploring this question, as a nation that was among the hardest hit by austerity and is now s...
The economic and financial crisis that hit various European countries, including Portugal, has caused a series of social effects and reactions that have been studied using a number of different conceptual approaches. The article looks at two types in particular: those which analyze populations’ levels of resilience regarding proximity and community...
During the international financial crisis, Portugal found itself in a very difficult and vulnerable socioeconomic situation that has led to an increase in social inequalities. This article seeks to understand two things: firstly, how much the impacts of the crisis contributed to a general perception that people's social position has gone backwards,...
Young people are considered to be the group most affected by the crisis, as they are more vulnerable to precarious working conditions. This article seeks to comprehend the social and individual impacts of precariousness on young peoples way of life from the analysis of objective and subjective dimensions, which reflect an individuals perception o...
This paper uses the lens of translocality to investigate the seasonal mobility system of Thai berry pickers in Sweden: the perspective highlights the local-to-local relations that constitute this transnational and fluid mobility system. In this paper, we add the aspect of social inequalities to translocal studies, while arguing that multi-sited and...
The European Union (EU) is living tremendous challenges generated by the high level of social disparities within and between national populations. European institutions have a decisive role in changing this situation and improving social protection policies. Chapters of this book demonstrate that despite certain successes of the EU’s tools in the s...
The theoretical advances on the subject of inequality have been both significant and varied, opening up renewed forms of understanding and explanation. The most important theories on and analyses of contemporary social inequalities adopt a multidimensional perspective. In this chapter, we will start by comparing Greece, Spain and Portugal to other...
This edited collection analyses social inequality in the European Union, within and between countries. The work critically explores both vertical inequality, existing between those with high incomes and low incomes, and horizontal inequality, existing between groups according to nationality, age, ethnicity, and gender.
Reducing Inequalities has be...
Mobilities have been looked at in increasingly greater depth over the last few decades, posing a growing set of theoretical and methodological problems for urban studies. One of the approaches being adopted in this field is the consideration of the relationship between social inequalities and various different mobility conditions. The present artic...
Experiencing Networked Urban Mobilities looks at the different experiences of networked urban mobilities. While the focus in the first book is on conceptual and theory-driven perspective, this second volume emphasizes the empirical investigation of networked urban mobilities. This book is a resource for researchers interested in the field to gain e...
O objetivo central deste artigo é desenvolver uma interpretação e uma compreensão do
fenómeno político-social da austeridade nas suas relações com a instauração de um regime
social de existência precária que se abateu, a partir de 2008, sobre Portugal e alguns países
da Europa. Deste propósito resultam outros dois objetivos parcelares: por um lado,...
This article results from a research project on inequalities and transportation in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, and contributes to the scientific debate on the production of urban mobility. Through the analysis of a set of interviews addressed to residents in three municipalities, this study achieves two main goals. First, it describes the main tr...
Usos e meios de transporte na Área Metropolitana de Lisboa:
uma abordagem qualitativa da mobilidade. Inserido num
projeto de investigação sobre desigualdades e mobilidades
na Área Metropolitana de Lisboa, este artigo pretende ser um
contributo para o aprofundamento do debate sobre a produ-
ção das mobilidades espaciais em contexto urbano. Partindo...
This article presents a comparative analysis of the United States and Portugal in terms of economic inequality from the early twentieth century to the present decade. We use different measures of inequality from several statistical sources. The article revolves around three complementary points. The first is a synchronic and diachronic analysis of...
Several authors have defended the idea that social inequalities are a multidimensional phenomenon. Goran Therborn’s typology of three major dimensions – resource, vital and existential inequalities – are well known (2006). Each of these dimensions is produced by different drivers and processes, and in most cases they are systemically interconnected...
This article analyzes the dispositions towards collective action, especially in regards to the local and individual scales. We focus mainly on the plurality of the individual situations, paying attention to the role of the local contexts to the greater or lesser incorporation of aradical habitus. In depth interviews were done to 15 individuals belo...
Proceedings of the XXVI European Society for Rural Sociology Congress.
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The aim of this article is to analyse the structural changes and continuities in Portuguese society over the two decades from 1988-2008. Although modernisation processes have intensified, the country still has a highly polarised social structure. This study included a multiple correspondence analysis and a cluster analysis, using sociological varia...
Este artigo pretende analisar a relação entre as diferentes componentes das desigualdades de recursos, com especial enfoque para as condições de habitabilidade e a autonomia financeira, e o seu impacto nas vulnerabilidades socais, que tendem a agravar-se nos atuais tempos de crise económico-financeira. Através dos dados de um inquérito por question...
Desde o 25 de Abril que não se registava um aumento da dívida do Estado português tão elevado como nos anos da austeridade. Se o objetivo desta política era desendividar Portugal e restabelecer a sua soberania, falhou redondamente.
É tempo de mudar o jogo, de devolver o futuro ao país.
Este é um livro de encorajamento. As saídas dependem das nossas...
This article analyses the exogamy patterns in four groups of immigrants to Portugal
— from the Portuguese-speaking African Countries (PALOPs), EU-12, Brazil, and Eastern Europe
— in 2001 and 2011. In the light of earlier studies, on the one hand the authors assess the existence
of both gender differences and differences in terms of educational and...
The authors of this article offer a brief comparison between the level of income inequality in Portugal and that in the universe of EU-28 countries. In addition to describing the fundamental indicators, they quickly characterise the wage inequality in this country. In a second section, the article takes a comparative look at the effect of the Portu...
This article analyses the relationship between the different components of resource inequalities, with a special focus on housing and financial autonomy, as well as their contribution towards the emergence of vulnerabilities which are being aggravated in the context of the actual economic and financial crisis. Using the data set obtained through a...
The European and Portuguese labour markets have undergone significant
changes in recent years. The high rates of unemployment have been accompanied
by precarious employment – a phenomenon that is affecting younger
people most. This article analyses how the future employment prospects of
young people with few qualifications and/or on low pay are bot...
This article examines how different socio-demographic trends interrelate with alterations in the traditional forms of social and interpersonal relationships. We will focus on two Portuguese municipalities using the concept of rural community as an analytic starting point for framing and examining the different dimensions of social capital. The surv...
O espaço urbano e, em particular, os usos e representações dos seus espaços públicos, nas suas várias definições possíveis, são os tópicos através do qual a cidade é questionada, através de diversos olhares, intervenções e enquadramentos teóricos, que conduzem a visões contrastadas, mas também complementares, da vida urbana. A dimensão relacional d...
This paper seeks to understand the way in which social capital resources are incorporated, appropriated and distributed by different social classes in Europe. Its main goal is to produce a conceptual framework by linking the concepts of social capital with the different theoretical assessments made by the sociology of social classes. We use multiva...
This article introduces a reflective analysis of polycentrism. Since the 1990s, polycentrism has provided the foundation for countless spatial planning policies in Europe. Most studies highlight the importance of cities and towns as the principal nodes for regional development. This article discusses whether polycentrism is the best planning soluti...
The aim of this article is to analyse the way in which unequal salaries
are related to spatial disparities within the city of Lisbon in a context
of economic globalization. It will therefore compare the pay levels of
the Lisbon's working population in the different parishes. Lisbon
municipality stands out from the rest of Portugal because of worker...
In a context of contemporaneousness in which there is little mention of the articulation between urban spaces and those with predominantly “rural” characteristics, we seek to make a contribution towards the “social construction of the rural space” and towards an understanding of the relation spheres and articulation between these spaces and the dyn...
O texto analisa as mudanças sociodemográficas que ocorreram na região algarvia nas últimas duas décadas, contemplando dois objectivos: caracterizar e interpretar o sentido destas alterações e confrontar os resultados obtidos com os estudos mais recentes e com as visões clássicas que definem as divisões sub -regionais. neste sentido, partimos das pe...
Territories and communities have to deal with constant reconfiguration, with one of its main expressions being the intensification
of spatial mobility. The changes that occur in rural areas – namely, the gradual decrease of the agriculture sector and, at
the same time, the growth of functional dependency in relation to more urbanised areas – have c...
Rural areas are often viewed as isolated and stagnating areas and urban areas as their opposites. Against such a backdrop, this book seeks to unveil a set of dynamics that view rural areas as ‘translocal’ in the sense that they are ‘changing’ and ‘interconnected’. Social transformations take place in rural areas as the result of intense exchanges...
Este livro procura entender como da precariedade laboral se pode passar à precariedade enquanto modo de vida, focando-se na situação dos jovens inseridos em postos de trabalho pouco qualificados e de baixa remuneração. Procura perceber as condições que levam à precariedade laboral, nomeadamente, o percurso escolar, a entrada no mercado de trabalho,...
This article aims to present a critical reflection on a set of recent dynamics that have been studied in areas considered peripheral and predominantly rural. Usually termed low density territories, these areas suffer from serious demographic problems (depopulation, ageing populations, etc.) and socio‑economic problems (lack of jobs, fewer private a...
If you imagine a rural space, you might think of the wide fields of an agricultural landscape, or the vast, forested parts
of a sparsely populated region. Perhaps you think about small villages or townscapes, or an isolated house in a remote region.
Rural spaces are often associated with an agricultural economy, outmigration and an ageing, decreasi...
The paper draws upon sociodemographical changes of the last two decades in the Algarve region. Two main purposes are: to describe and interpret the meaning of these changes and to confront this analysis with recent studies and with the classical definitions of sub-regional areas. Using the classical perspectives as a starting point we then present...
The main goal of this paper is to produce a critical analysis regarding the conception of multiple activities in the Portuguese rural society. This work questions the classic vision of the country that delineates a rigid territorial and sociological divisions (for instance, the distinction between Northern and the Southern region) from which it ten...
In the field of rural studies, social capital has been seen as an important factor that can contribute decisively to the development of rural communities. The aim of this article is to identify some of the social problems that are affecting the capacity of one particular village to generate and improve new forms of social capital. Albernoa is a Por...
This paper will focus on the social transformations that took place in the Portuguese rural space. In particular, we will study the village of Albernoa in the region of Alentejo in Southern Portugal in order to characterize the deep structural social change this place has gone through. In fact, similarly to what has happened to the major rural area...
Este artigo propõe uma leitura sobre o espaço rural tendo por base a sua oposição/relação com o urbano. Neste sentido, se desde os meados do século XIX até praticamente ao último terço do século XX, a análise sociológica clássica determinou um dualismo conceptual e analítico entre estes dois mundos, a partir de determinada altura reequacionou-se o...
This article seeks to develop an analytical theory of the concept of polycentrism, the assumptions of which provide the foundations for most of the current land planning policy framework, with a view to analyzing whether polycentrism is the best solution to the regional imbalances in the national territory, in particular those affecting areas that...
R E S U M O Albernoa é o nome de uma aldeia alentejana situada na região do Baixo-Alentejo (Sul de Portugal). Esta se encontra num processo acentuado de despovoamento e de envelhecimento (ao longo das últimas quatro décadas). Essas tendências acompanham o decrescimento ocorrido na actividade agrícola. Ao mesmo tempo identificámos alguns indicadores...
This article seeks to develop an analytical theory of the concept of polycentrism, the assumptions of which provide the foundations for most of the current land planning policy framework, with a view to analyzing whether polycentrism is the best solution to the regional imbalances in the national territory, in particular those affecting areas that...
No mundo contemporâneo, o fenómeno que se denomina como «globalização» apresenta uma ampla variedade de campos de aplicação e de tópicos de debate. Esta obra reúne textos de quinze investigadores de áreas bastante distintas, desde a antropologia, sociologia, história até à economia e biologia: Renato Miguel do Carmo, Luís Almeida Vasconcelos, Danie...
