The Brazilian attachment regime: inequalities and social bonds

Abstract

Throughout their lives, individuals engage in a permanent process of (re)building ties (family, community, professionals, citizenship) that ensure protection from the risks and recognition of their own existence and identity. Although in each society, the various types of ties are present, there is always a preeminent one, whose values and principles influence the others, regulating them and laying the foundations for a particular moral economy, for an “attachment regime”. In this article we will approach the subject from the Brazilian case. We will analyze its peculiar regime by means of comparisons. We will initially compare Brazilian data with those gathered in a previous study on a sample of sixteen European countries. Then, we will explore its internal heterogeneities, comparing changes on time and between Brazilian regions.

Keywords: Social bonds; Inequalities; Comparisons; Brazil