About the Journal

The Brazilian Journal of Sociology - RBS is the scientific journal of the Brazilian Society of Sociology. Launched in 2013 and published every four months since 2017, the journal aims to disseminate and advance both Brazilian and international knowledge on contemporary societies, resulting from original and unpublished research in the areas of Sociology and Social Sciences. RBS is aimed at specialized academic and scientific audiences, as well as the broader audience interested in sociological debate.

RBS welcomes articles that present original theoretical reflections and results of empirical research on topics relevant to contemporary sociology.

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CALL FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS TO THE DOSSIER BRAZILIAN SOCIAL THOUGHT

14-01-2026

The Brazilian Journal of Sociology (RBS) invites researchers to submit contributions that explore continuities and inflections in Brazilian social thought, its internal tensions, and its capacity to keep pace with and question the changing world.

Selected works will be published in the dossier “Pensamento Social Brasileiro” organized by Lucas Correia Carvalho (UFF) and Fabio Mascaro Querido (Unicamp).

Submissions to the dossier will be accepted until April 20, 2026.

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Current Issue

Vol. 13 (2025): Volume único
Published: 24-01-2025

Artigos

  • For an ethical, social, solidarity and popular economy Interview with José Luis Coraggio

    Livia de Tommasi, Virginia Manzano, José Luis Coraggio
    e-rbs.1141

    Visualizações: 86
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1141

  • Identities of teachers in Sociology elements for a sociological reading

    Marcelo Pinheiro Cigales, Geovanna Gabrielle Pereira Brito

    Visualizações: 233
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1056

  • Social learning and performances: shifts in social change in contemporary theory

    André Pereira Botelho, Alexandre de Bastos Pereira

    Visualizações: 327
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1084

  • Why we need a non-eurocentric history of sociology A reply to Carlos Sell

    João Marcelo Ehlert Maia

    Visualizações: 621
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1127

  • Why we need a non-eurocentric history of sociology A reply to Carlos Sell

    João Marcelo Ehlert Maia

    Visualizações: 159
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1126

  • The Destruction of the classics of sociology democratization or homogenization?

    Carlos Eduardo Sell
    e-rbs.1057

    Visualizações: 2346
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1057

  • The Destruction of the classics of sociology democratization or homogenization?

    Carlos Eduardo Sell
    e-rbs.1092

    Visualizações: 411
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1092

  • Afro-old age Another reading for Brazilian population aging

    Valmir Moratelli

    Visualizações: 717
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1012

  • Post-Counterculture sexual freedom Last Tango in Paris and 9½ weeks

    Jefferson Guedes
    e-rbs.971

    Visualizações: 581
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.971

  • Education and insularity of upper classes in São Paulo and Barcelona

    Miqueli Michetti, Edison Ricardo Emiliano Bertoncelo
    e-rbs.1087

    Visualizações: 302
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1087

  • Organic production in Brazil an analysis of the agreements signed by MAPA with subnational entities (2008-2021)

    Lizandro Lui, Jessica Lucion, Wanessa Miquelino
    e-rbs.1028

    Visualizações: 545
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1028

  • (Inter)faces, perspectives and image languages genealogy and image paradigms based on semiotics

    Tatiana Maria Soares Araujo, Hylio Laganá Fernandes
    e-rbs.1005

    Visualizações: 442
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1005

  • Education and inequality from a sociology of interdependence view between experiences and social structures

    Arilda Arboleya
    e-rbs.1000

    Visualizações: 1232
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1000

  • Transversal field and new scientific hierarquies the case of IPCC

    Thales Haddad Novaes de Andrade
    e-rbs.1011

    Visualizações: 593
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1011

  • Magazine Luiza inclusive policies and the fight against racial inequality in the labor market

    SILVIO MATHEUS SANTOS
    e-rbs.991

    Visualizações: 1045
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.991

  • Challenges in implementing the Management Plan in the Caeté-Taperaçu Marine Resex, Amazon

    Marcelo do Vale Oliveira, Ana Beatriz Guimarães Quadros, Sebastiao Rodrigues da Silva Junior, Roberta Sá Leitão Barboza
    e-rbs.923

    Visualizações: 410
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.923

  • Engaging in tourism and believing in tourism The ideation of the beach city of Jurerê

    Varlei Rui Ertel, Marcia Mazon
    e-rbs.992

    Visualizações: 417
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.992

  • Positionality of Female Visual Artists in the Ghana

    Adwoa Owusuaa Bobie
    e-rbs.1006

    Visualizações: 758
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1006

  • Leisure as a class marker

    Celi Scalon, Matheus Alves Lira, Manuela Peclat
    e-rbs.1042

    Visualizações: 1432
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1042

  • Can fab labs be an infrastructure for a geographically distributed social movement?

    Rafael Malhão
    e-rbs.989

    Visualizações: 566
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.989

Programas de Pesquisa em Sociologia

  • Sociological theory in Brazil today challenges and possible directions

    José Maurício Domingues
    e-rbs.1082

    Visualizações: 891
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1082

Futuros Passados

  • Vocation, learning and professionalization “The social conditions of the scientific training of sociologists"

    Andréa Borges Leão, Marialice Foracchi
    e-rbs.1076

    Visualizações: 493
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1076

Sociologies in Dialogue

  • The Spirit of the Brazilian Racial Developmentalism

    Marcelo Paixão

    Visualizações: 998
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1068

Dossier Metamorphoses of Sociology in Times of Crisis

  • Metamorphoses of Sociology in Times of Crisis

    Raquel Andrade Weiss, Felipe Maia, Giuseppe Ricotta
    e-rbs.1174

    Visualizações: 142
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1174

  • Metamorphoses of Sociology in Times of Crisis Introduction

    Raquel Andrade Weiss, Felipe Maia, Giuseppe Ricotta
    e-rbs.1163

    Visualizações: 430
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1163

  • Gradient of problematizations a proposal for the study of crisis and fragilities of social life

    Lucas Faial Soneghet
    e-rbs.1086

    Visualizações: 179
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1086

  • Conjunctural analysis Uma genealogia conceitual

    Frédéric Vandenberghe
    e-rbs.1118

    Visualizações: 278
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1118

  • The place of “misplaced ideas” in the crisis of sociology

    Marcos Lacerda
    e-rbs.1095

    Visualizações: 398
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1095

  • The vocation of social sciences in a world of unreason

    Thiago Panica Pontes
    e-rbs.1098

    Visualizações: 204
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1098

  • The Division of labor of criticism in social systems theory

    Roberto Dutra
    e-rbs.1175

    Visualizações: 92
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1175

  • The division of labor of criticism in social systems theory

    Roberto Dutra
    e-rbs.1101

    Visualizações: 374
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1101

  • “Meditações” adornianas sobre a dominação da natureza rumo a uma nova crítica do poder

    Irene Strazzeri
    e-rbs.1073

    Visualizações: 138
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1073

  • Fieldwork in the Jequitinhonha Valley methodological reflections within an energy transition context

    Elaine Santos
    e-rbs.1081

    Visualizações: 192
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1081

Dossiê Circulação intelectual entre França e Brasil

  • Exchange programs between France and Brazil case studies in the academic field

    Carlos Benedito Martins, Frédéric Lebaron
    e-rbs.1189

    Visualizações: 79
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1189

  • Positions of Francophony and Anglophony in Brazilian Sociology (1998-2021)

    Lidiane Soares Rodrigues
    e-rbs.1109

    Visualizações: 255
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1109

  • Factors influencing the recruitment of Brazilians in the French university environment

    Jéssica Ronconi, Carolina Martins Pulici
    e-rbs.1106

    Visualizações: 83
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1106

  • Michel Maffesoli and the asymmetries in the international circulation of intellectuals

    Eduardo Dimitrov, Lucas Page Pereira
    e-rbs.1121

    Visualizações: 141
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1121

  • Brazil and France on the same level A conversation with Benoît de L’Estoile

    Benoît de L’Estoile L’Estoile, Camila Gui Rosatti, Eduardo Dimitrov
    e-rbs.1191

    Visualizações: 133
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1191

  • Between borders Knowledge, activism, and academic circulation in Helena Hirata’s career

    Helena Hirata, Maira Abreu, Eduardo Dimitrov
    e-rbs.1177

    Visualizações: 61
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1177

Dossiê Precariedades Contemporâneas

  • Contemporary precariousness

    Jacob Carlos Lima, Helena Bomeny
    e-rbs.1192

    Visualizações: 109
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1192

  • Crises, work, and political sovereignty Conceptual elements and diagnoses

    Luiz Gustavo da Cunha de Souza
    e-rbs.1138

    Visualizações: 85
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1138

  • Precarious employment Definitions, current configurations, and modes of resistance

    Marco Aurelio Santana
    e-rbs.1143

    Visualizações: 88
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1143

  • Beyond precariousness scenes and scenarios of work and nature in the sugarcane fields of São Paulo

    Rodrigo Constante Martins, Maria Aparecida de Moraes Silva
    e-rbs.1130

    Visualizações: 71
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1130

  • Contemporary precariousness and recognition in the pandemic

    José Miguel Rasia, Soraya Vargas Cortes, Alexandre Ribeiro Martins
    e-rbs.1137

    Visualizações: 77
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1137

  • Navigating precariousness Urban precariousness and everyday resistance among women from two favelas in Rio de Janeiro

    Lia de Mattos Rocha, Aline de Almeida Hoche
    e-rbs.1146

    Visualizações: 106
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1146

  • Education and precariousness Ambitious proposal for educational public policies as a strategy for building democratic futures

    Marcele Frossard
    e-rbs.1136

    Visualizações: 124
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1136
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