The Brazilian political identity: thinking about ruptures and continuities

Abstract

It is with great pleasure that we continue our work and present to the reader another publication from Revista Aurora. In this volume, we present the works a) “The utility of the useless: from cyberdemocracy to education and society”, by Carmem Lucia Albrecht da Silveira (UPF), which reflects on the useful and the useless in the construction of education with the concept cyberdemocracy; b) “The value of public education: quantitative results”, by Cristiane de Almeida Jardim (UFSM), shedding light on the insertion of the quasi-market in public schools through managerialism and other public policies in Rio Grande do Sul; c) “Crime in Durkheim: a discontinuous trajectory”, by Maiara Corrêa (USP), which surveys the reception of Durkheim's sociology of crime in Brazil, as well as its mobilization; d) “The imperative of morality and the socialization of affections: propositions based on Émile Durkheim”, by Rhuann Lima Fernandes Porto (UERJ), which discusses the relationships between morality, emotion and family in Émile Durkheim and their influence on psychology; e) “The notion of the scientific procedure in the work of Pierre Duhem”, by Fernando Henrique Silveira Camano (UFSJ), which addresses the main points of Pierre Duhem's philosophy of science and relates it to the history of science; and f) “Comfort women: an analysis of prostitution in the second world war (1939-1945)”, by Murilo Mesquita (UFPE), which analyzes the role of comfort women in the war scenario.