Virgílio Borges Pereira

• Professor
• Professor at University of Porto

The ‘globalization turn’ in the sociology of class has led to the resurgence of studies comparing social classes in Europe over the past 20 years and to question the methodological nationalism of the class analysis. But it has also paid little attention to the selection of the most appropriate empirical tools for quantifying class in a comparative...

The publication, in 1964, in the pages of the journal Análise Social, of “Portugal, sociedade dualista em evolução”, by Adérito Sedas Nunes, is seen as an inaugural milestone in systematic sociological research into Portuguese social structure. This text seeks to reconstitute the dualist sociological argument contained in the article, the path of i...

Blocks of flats are the most abundant built element in many cities and their quality is an important issue. Undergraduate students often occupy these accommodations and this group describes a wide range of housing situations that makes it possible to assess their quality. This research aims to describe the data collection strategy in an ongoing res...

Social housing has a long tradition in Europe. Since the early 20th century, these often anonymous and sometimes unappreciated buildings have formed the suburbs of large European cities. With the multidisciplinary international research project "Mapping Public Housing," the Center for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism at the Faculty of Architect...

Contemporary ordinary collective housing buildings constitute quantitatively the greater built heritage of many compact cities, and in the near future they will need to be rehabilitated en masse. Their repetitive patterns promote the application of GIS/BIM modelling technology. Thus, this research develops a shape grammar to semi-automatically esti...

This chapter attempts to establish a link between the phenomenological analysis of social interactions and the historical inscription of the structures of the social space. Combining a socio-historical analysis of the processes of class formation among industrialists in the Porto and North Region of Portugal with an ethnographically inspired histor...

Sociological distinction explains how certain subjects (individuals and groups) gain an advantage using their social, economic, cultural, and symbolic capitals according to Bourdieu. In the same way, elements in urban areas use their qualities to distinguish themselves in an analogous competition within both the physical and social space. The clea...

Mainstream discourses describe the general built environment based on concepts like “trivialisation” or “ugliness” .These positions hide a more complex reality in which a widespread phenomenon of hybridisation between local tradition and global modernity occurs. Post-war Galicia-Northern Portugal is a privileged case study because, as a peripheral...

Mainstream discourses describe the general built environment based on concepts like “trivialisation” or “ugliness” .These positions hide a more complex reality in which a widespread phenomenon of hybridisation between local tradition and global modernity occurs. Post-war Galicia-Northern Portugal is a privileged case study because, as a peripheral...

This article discusses the relevance of an analytical approach inspired by Pierre Bourdieu's sociological theory of fields to understand the processes of structuring economic activity, focusing on the way in which such processes have been shaped in the construction sector in Portugal over the last two decades. By mobilising official statistical inf...

APRESENTAÇÃO DE UM PROJETO/Rui Jorge Garcia Ramos 1 - CONTEXTO A CIÊNCIA E A TÉCNICA AO SERVIÇO DE CIDADES MAIS MODERNAS E SALUBRES/Ana Cardoso de Matos A QUESTÃO HABITACIONAL EM PORTUGAL – ENTRE O FINAL DA MONARQUIA E A REPÚBLICA/Paulo M. Almeida CORPORATIVISMO E HABITAÇÃO ECONÓMICA EM MEIO URBANO EM PORTUGAL (1933-1974) /Paula Borges Santos, José...

REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE SOCIOLOGIA . Resumo: Nesse trabalho, defendemos que o processo legislativo é composto por dois momentos: tomada de decisão e tomada de posição. A partir da sociologia política, propomos uma tipologia, baseada na teoria de Pierre Bourdieu, para compreender a tomada de posição dos agentes políticos – o modo como se posicionam em...

Architectural studies usually deal with special, privileged or representative buildings and they use manual methods adapted to these cases. Thus, a double lack of research was detected: firstly, ordinary architecture was not sufficiently studied, despite its quantitative importance and, secondly, automatic methods were not used as much as in other...

International Congress FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PORTO | CASA DA MÚSICA. PORTO, PORTUGAL, 06 - 08 MAY 2019

Palabras clave: Recualificación urbana, Arquitectura Pop, Kitsch, Diferenciación social. Resumen: La rehabilitación se encuentra tradicionalmente circunscrita a edificios o áreas considerados singulares que integran el patrimonio histórico-artístico. Sin embargo, los edificios corrientes de 1960 hasta hoy constituyen la mayor parte del patrimonio c...

Refurbishment is traditionally related to singular buildings or remarkable areas, which are considered to be historical-artistic heritage. Nevertheless, common buildings from 1960 to the present day constitute the majority of the built heritage of the Euroregion. As their mass demolition is not feasible, different interventions should be analysed....

This article tries to broaden the research agenda on territorial stigmatisation. It reviews some theoretical arguments on the relevance of a relational sociological reading of the processes of territorial stigmatisation, and proposes a study of these processes during a period of political revolution and social instability, through discussion of the...

This paper discusses some preliminary results of a mix-method sociological study about the experience of physical and social suffering lived by Portuguese workers involved in work accidents. Based on an extensive survey to a national sample of injured workers and in-depth interviews, the paper identifies the major characteristics that define how su...

This essay employs Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice and the methodology of Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) to extend the mapping of the dynamic relations between class and culture presented in Bourdieu's Distinction to encompass urban space, drawing on data from a multi-method research project on the city of Porto, Portugal. We present a...

Cet article vise à expliciter les difficultés rencontrées lors de la comparaison entre des travaux portant sur les classes populaires en France, et sur les mondes ouvriers au Portugal, tout en soulignant le caractère fructueux d’une telle confrontation intellectuelle. Les travaux discutés démontrent bien dans les deux cas la pertinence de l’analyse...

Based on Bourdieu’s sociological work, this chapter lists a brief set of conditions to promote sociological research on the relations between society and space. Making use of a socio-genetic approach and of the dense objectivation of the relations between physical space, social space and lifestyles, the text discusses the importance of “the effects...

Texto traz entrevista com o sociólogo John Scott.

O texto faz a apresentação ao dossiê e aos artigos.

O presente texto procura demonstrar a relevância do trabalho de Pierre Bourdieu para o desenvolvimento de pesquisa sociológica sobre classes sociais e processos de simbolização na cidade. A partir de uma leitura de La Distinction, o texto documenta o percurso teórico-empírico formulado na análise da cidade do Porto, em Portugal. Com recurso à técni...

This short article presents the thematic issue of the Environment & Planning A journal, which builds on the analytic framework elaborated by Wacquant in Urban Outcasts (2008) and on the activities of the Leverhulme Network on Advanced Urban Marginality to synthesize and stimulate inquiries into the triadic nexus of symbolic space, social space, and...

This paper draws on a multidisciplinary study of state policy, housing provision, and the social question in Porto, Portugal, over the past half century, combining ethnography, in-depth interviews, and a survey of local families. It examines the trajectory of one of the city's largest and most notorious public housing estates to map out how transfo...

A House for the Portuguese People Taking as reference a general reading of the “housing question” during the first half of the 20th century in Portugal, this paper offers an analysis of the process of development of the country’s first major state housing policy: the “programme of economic houses” (programa das casas económicas), the answer of the...

Space, Social Relations and Working Class Culture in Porto's Historical Downtown This paper presents the results of a set of researches about the transformation of social relations, sociability and lifestyles in a neighbourhood of Porto's historical downtown. The analysis of the morphology of the place, of the population's aging process and of the...

The paper offers an engagement with economic issues, via an exploration of the recent crisis in Northern Portugal, to discuss the roles of social capital and cultural capital in the configuration of diverse experiences of unemployment. It focuses on changes over time and on contemporary everyday relations to identify such experiences. By means of a...

This paper aims to analyse the processes of social structuration of economic activity in the region of the Sousa River Valley (Vale do Sousa), in Northwest Portugal. Within a wider research on the processes of social reproduction and transformation that have been occurring in the region during the last 50 years 1 , we wish to briefly identify the m...

O presente estudo constitui uma análise do quotidiano de uma freguesia industrializada da região do Vale do Ave. Num primeiro momento, a investigação materializa-se na construção de uma perspectiva teórico-metodológica susceptível de dar conta das modalidades de estilização da vida a que o quotidiano está sujeito. Num segundo momento, equaciona-se,...