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VIEIRA, Maria Sulamita de Almeida. Curso de Ciências Sociais da UFC: mapeamento da produção de monografias (1978-2008). Revista de Ciências Sociais, Fortaleza, v. 39, n. 1, 2008, p. 81-105

VIEIRA, Maria Sulamita de Almeida. Luís de Gonzaga Mendes Chaves: lições de um mestre. Revista de Ciências Sociais, Fortaleza, v. 39, n. 1, 2008, p. 111-115

ALDÉ, Alessandra; VASCONCELLOS, Fábio. Ao vivo, de Brasília: escândalo político, oportunismo midiático e circulação de notícias. Revista de Ciências Sociais, Fortaleza, v. 39, n. 2, 2008, p. 61-69

SANTIAGO, Eduardo Girão. Vertentes teóricas sobre empreendedorismo em Shumpeter, Weber e McClelland: novas referências para a sociologia do trabalho. Revista de Ciências Sociais, Fortaleza, v. 40, n. 2, 2009, p. 87-103

This article’s mains objective is to understand the process of political representation by civil society in the Food and Nutricional Security Council of Ceará (CONSEA-CE). The aim is to understand how to make this representation, how to build legitimacy and relations of civil society with government and how these relationships may or may not contribute to the improvement of democracy.

On the bases of investigation about the strategies for survival and social reproduction of families in the perifery of Maputo (Mozambique) this article reflects on the relations which are processed between families and between members of the same family and the different religious congregations. After a brief description of the social context in analyses and the family stratigies studdied, there are raised the implications of adhesion of the social actors to the different cults in the inter and intra familiar relations. There is underlined a plurality of “religious” situations and the sincretic character of the religioius dimension and these elements are connected to the therapeutic practices which the different cults and those associates with them develop.

TUPINAMBÁ, Antonio Caubi Ribeiro. Considerações críticas acerca das relações entre religião e estado-nação na atualidade. Revista de Ciências Sociais, Fortaleza, v. 39, n. 2, 2008, p. 121–123

Starting from a comparative analysis of four literary texts (from Brazilian and Portuguese origin), the author examines how narratives set up identities, ruptures and interactions between nations. In this view, he treats lusophony as a cultural construct and representation which refers to a space of dispute between concepts and social imaginaries. Lusophony and its discourses express an “ethnolandscape” to which production and reception agents belong, literature constituting an important rhetorical field for reflexions on the theme.

Despite his role as one of the pioneers of sociology in Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Ferdinand Tönnies appears in the annals of modern sociology as a lesser, almost anonymous figure. Paradoxically, he is the author of important contributions, which made way for the institutionalization of sociology as a scientific discipline and is also the author of important concepts, which today have been incorporated and crystallized by sociological jargon. In this article I bring back to the fore two categories put forth in his most well-known writing, “Community and Society”. My aim is to emphasize the importance of reflecting upon these concepts in order to elaborate theoretical and descriptive models focused on arrangements of sociability.

This article presents a theoretical study of secrecy and information manipulation in institutions, based on the viewpoint by Goffman. The analysis is centered on the way that author treats micro-relations and manipulation processes employed both by individuals and by institutions aiming at withdrawing information and producing a favorable image. It examines the dynamics established between public institutions and civil society, considering the fact that there exist individuals who manipulate their own images and that of their group in order to influence opinions and receive approval. It deals especially with the risks brought about by secrecy, outside of the limits drawn by democratic principles.

This article analyses the emergency of feminine leadership on the local politics. We took as case for investigation the candidature of Cozete Barbosa and Lídia Moura to City Hall of Campina Grande in the year of 2004. The text problematizes the institution of these leaderships in the city, to understand the place occupied by them in the media and in the Gratuitous Schedule of Electoral Advertising. For in such a way, we were worried in answering the following questions: how are instituted, politically and culturally, on the society of Campina Grande, these feminine candidatures? What are their speeches, expectations and how they position themselves as women in the electoral dispute context?

Here is presented a study of the principal political-electoral appeals used in the campaign for president of Brazil in 2006. The political-electoral marketing is understood as the use of instruments of marketing in political activities either by governments, parties, institutions or personalities in moments of electoral campaigns or not. Here is analyzed the contents of programmers of the Free Electoral Hour of Television of the candidates (HEGTV) - Luís Inácio Lula da Silva (PT); Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB), and Heloísa Helena (PSOL), focalizing on the principal discursive axis in relation to the rational appeals for values, for rational and emotional affairs.

This article presents a brief overview of discussions on the notion of democracy by three thinkers: Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, and Jürgen Habermas. It shows the articulations between categories orienting the discussion on democracy, and examines their pertinence to the understanding of real constraints to democratic practice, in the field of contemporary political ommunication, taking into account the role played by communication media in the configuration of social reality, in the conformation of the political agenda, in the public debate, and in the constitution of the public opinion. From these ideas, the article intends to analyze the democratic demand for political and social pluralism in the media.

MENDES, Napoleão Marcos de Moura. Ritual, communitas e espetáculo religioso na marcha para Jesus em Fortaleza-Ce. Revista de Ciências Sociais, Fortaleza, v. 39, n. 2, p.105-120, 2008.

CARVALHO, Rejane Maria Vasconcelos Accioly de. Fronteiras simbólicas borradas na transição de ciclos políticos : a campanha para o governo do Ceará em 2006. Revista de Ciências Sociais, Fortaleza, v. 39, n. 2 , p.22-43, 2008.

Have like backstage a reflexion about autonomy of art and the confusion in the bounderies of culture world, we will to design a caracterization of the modernity through a reconstruction of the concepts of art and artist, from the end of the XIX century to the global context of the beguin of the XXI century, that we understand here like a space of radical modernity.

In this paper, based on the filmography of Afonso Brazza, I propose some questions about the market of cinema, particularly in the West, and about the nature of many films narratives that may represent counterpoints to the patterns and hegemonic structures of production and distribution in cinematographic industry. The films made by this movie maker, in Brasília, Soldier of Fire Department, may be thought as radical narratives that, playing, interact with the excesses of cultural and cinematographic industries. In his narratives, the signs and heroes of stories told by others, especially by North American movies, are eaten anthropophagically, incorporated and retold, in new stories, telling about his own way into the word, and his belonging.

This article deals with the foundation of the Museum of Modern Art, MAM, Rio de Janeiro, and analyzes the various projects that worked together to bring a new institution into the world. The kernel of the thesis centers around the discussions of the concept of modernity and the article compares the Rio de Janeiro MAM with its American model, The Musem of Modern Art in New York.

This essay compares two historical contexts in which the alliance between art, psychology and psychiatry was set in motion as a resource in the transformation of madness’ and the artistic phenomenon’s representations. In such a way, I depart from the reflections on the transformations in the values’ systems that conducted the artistic phenomenon in Brazil, in middle of 20th century, consecrating the individual singularity as a locus of the modern artistic production. The alliance between art, psychology and psychiatry was fundamental in this process, in which social actors’ strategies, actions and behaviors had constructed a system of representations that transformed the imaginary role and the creator’s symbolic place. From this process, I compared the alliance between art, psychology and psychiatry in that context and the use of artistic manifestations in the current “Psychiatric Reformation”, showing that both representations, that of the insane and the artist, are constituted of antagonistic values.

The use of antenna arrays at both ends of the link has attracted significant attention of the researches on space-time equalization and coding techniques for so called multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) channels. The presence of strong co-channel interference (CCI) in addition to inter-symbol interference (1S1) in current wireless (mobile) communication systems places a significant challenge to MlMO space-time equalizers. In this work we assess performance of BLAST/MIMO on frequency-selective MlMO channel model in the presence of CC1. Space-time processing is used in order to deal with the fiequency selectivity and to provide more degrees of freedom to deal with cochannel interference. We consider two non-linear space-time processing-based receivers. The first one is a MlMO spacetime decision feedback equalizer (MIMO ST-DFE) and the second one is a space-time delayed decision feedback sequence estimator (MIMO ST-DDFSE) with actual adaptive algorithms for channel acquisition. Noise-limited as well as interference-limited situations are evaluated.