Paulo Limongi received his BA in International Relations from The Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro and also holds a teacher course in social science, obtained at the same university. He obtained an MA in Sociology from the State University of Rio de Janeiro and now is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. He has been researching especially the intersection between religion and politics during the Brazilian dictatorship. Lately, he has been studying social theory and research methodology in the social sciences.
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Of Contradictions Between Sociology & Neoliberalism
Émile Durkheim (1858-1917), one of the founders of sociology as a science, undertook a great effort for this area of knowledge to overcome its so-called ideological burdens. For him, “it is necessary to free oneself from the false evidence that dominates the common spirit” (Durkheim, 2004: 64). Sociology should become a science of empirical strength,… Read More »