10/08/2012

Book on social networks

The CEM launched on August 2012 at Livraria da Vila-Jardins a new book by Eduardo Marques (org.), "Social Networks in Brazil"

Redes sociais no Brasil: Sociabilidade, organizações civis e políticas públicas, Eduardo Marques (org.) (Social Networks in Brazil- Sociability, Civil Organizations and Public Policy)

Organized by Eduardo Marques, Fino Traço Publisher/CEM, includes the work of other researchers from the Centre. The book brings together the research produced at the Centre for Metropolitan Studies related to social networks. As widely noted in recent years, social networks make up the fabric of relations between individuals, groups and entities that structure fields where social phenomena happen. Despite the recent widespread use of networks as a metaphor for social phenomena, there are few Brazilian studies that investigate relational structures empirically and test them by using specific methodologies developed internationally for this type of analysis. The publication helps to fill in this gap by presenting results of a series of investigations on social networks and the reproduction of poverty, cultural and associative practices, job searching, and the formulation and implementation of public policies. Taken all together, these studies contribute to an important advance in our knowledge about the importance of relational structures.

Summary

Part I – Social networks, sociability and urban poverty

Chapter 1 Social networks, poverty and segregation in Sao Paulo and Salvador - concepts and methods - Eduardo Marques

Chapter 2 Personal networks in Sao Paulo and Salvador - E. Marques and Renata Bichir

Chapter 3 Personal networks and access to markets - E. Marques, Graziela Castello and Renata Bichir

Chapter 4 Social exchanges, supports and relational mechanisms - Encarnación Moya and E. Marques

Chapter 5 Social networks and obtaining work: trajectories, attributes and connections - Nadya Guimarães, Ana Carolina Andrada, Monise Picanço and Priscila Vieira

Chapter 6 Social networks and cultural expressions in the periphery: the geographical extension of rappers in the city of Sao Paulo - Charles Kisrchbaum and Ana Carolina Andrada

Part II Social – Social networks, participation and civilian organizations

Chapter 7 Civil Society and political intermediation - Neighborhood associations and NGOs in two Latin American metropolises - Adrian Gurza Lavalle and Natália S. Bueno

Chapter 8 Politics, violence and agency: social networks of a human rights organization in the periphery of Sao Paulo - Ana Paula Galdeano

Part III Networks and public policies

Chapter 9 Poverty, segregation and social networks: A study on the impact of the removal of dwellers of slum Guinle , Guarulhos / SP - Rafael Barros Soares

Chapter 10 Implementing Bureaucracy and the struggle against Poverty: Community Health Workers in three Brazilian cities - Gabriela S. Lotta

Chapter 11 Actors and networks in public safety debate - Thais Pavez, Demétrio Cirne de Toledo and Renata da Rocha Gonçalves.