Functional differentiation and the sociology of Brazilian modernity

Sociological interpretations of Brazil, guided by the concepts of “personalism and “patrimonialism”, develop a diagnosis that we have a “modernity deficit “and infer this deficit largely of an alleged missing or imperfect process of differentiation of social spheres and subsystems among us. Currentl...

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Published in:Política & Sociedade
Main Author: Dutra, Roberto
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) 2016
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spelling ftunivfscojs:oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/48318 2023-07-30T04:05:27+02:00 Functional differentiation and the sociology of Brazilian modernity Diferenciação funcional e a sociologia da modernidade brasileira Dutra, Roberto 2016-12-22 application/pdf https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politica/article/view/2175-7984.2016v15n34p77 https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7984.2016v15n34p77 por por Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politica/article/view/2175-7984.2016v15n34p77/33257 https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politica/article/view/2175-7984.2016v15n34p77 doi:10.5007/2175-7984.2016v15n34p77 Copyright (c) 2016 Política & Sociedade Política & Sociedade; Vol. 15 No. 34 (2016); 77 – 109 Política & Sociedade; Vol. 15 Núm. 34 (2016); 77 – 109 Política & Sociedade; v. 15 n. 34 (2016); 77 – 109 2175-7984 1677-4140 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2016 ftunivfscojs https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7984.2016v15n34p77 2023-07-14T07:46:51Z Sociological interpretations of Brazil, guided by the concepts of “personalism and “patrimonialism”, develop a diagnosis that we have a “modernity deficit “and infer this deficit largely of an alleged missing or imperfect process of differentiation of social spheres and subsystems among us. Currently, this type of interpretation has been updated with the theory of functional differentiation of Niklas Luhmann. In this paper we will try to show that this type of sociological interpretation is based on an idealization of differentiation of spheres in the North Atlantic countries, building an empirically unfounded counterpoint to diagnose the lack of functional differentiation in Brazil. As interpretações sociológicas sobre o Brasil, guiadas pelos conceitos de “personalismo e “patrimonialismo”, desenvolvem o diagnóstico de que temos um “déficit de modernidade” e inferem este déficit, em grande medida, de uma suposta ausência ou imperfeição do processo de diferenciação das esferas e subsistemas sociais entre nós. Atualmente, este tipo de interpretação tem sido atualizada com base na teoria da diferenciação funcional de Niklas Luhmann. Neste texto tentaremos mostrar que este tipo de interpretação sociológica parte de uma idealização da diferenciação das esferas nos países do Atlântico Norte, construindo um contraponto empiricamente infundado para diagnosticar a falta de diferenciação funcional entre nós. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Portal de Periódicos UFSC (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina) Política & Sociedade 15 34 77
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