Sociology in Brazil: A Brief Institutional and Intellectual History

DIEGO EZEQUIEL PEREYRA

Serendipities. Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences

The Royal Danish Library

Lugar: Copenaghe; Año: 2021 vol. 6 p. 68 - 73

Cordeiro, Veridiana Domingos and Hugo Neri, “Sociology in Brazil: A Brief Institutional and Intellectual History?”, Serendipities 6.2021 (1): 68-73How does one write the history of the sociology of a peripheral country? Moreover, how might one achieve this in a country as vast and complex as Brazil? This is a very difficult challenge to perform. Cordeiro and Neri´s book, Sociology in Brazil, published by Palgrave-Pivot in the Sociology Transformed Series, has managed this task well. The book aims to produce an integrative reconstruction of sociology in Brazil over a period of almost 130 years. The volume deserves to be read since it gives a sound analytical description of the intellectual and institutional development of the discipline ofthe country. In addition, this historical account offers a re-interpretation of traditional narratives from a perspective combining both cognitive and institutional factors. It also aims to achieve a comprehensive narration of disputes between local sociological traditions, institutions from different cities and regions, and local key intellectual figures.