The present article resumes some interpretations of the project of modernity. It approaches them to some elements of the Brazilian social formation, considering the narrow relationship for the affirmation and the valuation of democracy in Brazil. Moreover, the article stresses the interpretations of the redemocratization of the Brazilian society that show how important the practice of the social movements was to the validation of such a process.
Brazilian democracy; Brazilian social-historic formation; Modernity; Social movements; Popular participation; Brazilian redemocratization
