This study focuses on the history of sociology in Brazil and receptions of European and North American sociological traditions by Brazilian sociology. The stages and periods of development of Sociology and its institutionalization as an academic-scientific discipline in Brazil are presented in their main features, as well as sociology's current situation at universities, the main fields of research of Brazilian sociology, and the new themes and approaches that came to be proposed for explaining and/or understanding Brazil's social situation.
sociology in Brazil; history of sociology in Brazil