Social Thought and Public Policies

Abstract

It is with great pleasure that we continue our work and present to the reader another issue of Revista Aurora. The Dossier Section of this issue covers the theme of Social Thought and Public Policies and is structured around the following works: a) The influence of Georges Gurvitch on the thought of Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiroz, authored by Dora Vianna Vasconcellos, Post-doctoral student in Development, Agriculture and Society at UFRRJ; b) Youth as a device of modern societies, by Mário Thiago Ruggieri Neto, Master's student in Social Sciences at UNESP-Marília; c) Circulation of mill workers during abolition and post-abolition: stories, trajectories and autonomy, by Maria Emília Vasconcelos dos Santos, PhD in Social History of Culture, from UNICAMP; and d) Art and Politics: the trajectory and muralism of Diego Rivera, by Marcia Helena Domingues Camargo, Master's student in Social Sciences at UNESP-Marília. In the Miscellaneous Section, the published articles cover various themes and reflections on different social phenomena in the Human Sciences and are structured around the following works: a) Bodin and the State, authored by Rafael Salatini, PhD in Political Science from USP and professor from UNESP-Marília; b) Against dogmatism in History: Time as a basic phenomenon of human experience, by Robson Rocha de Souza Júnior, Master's student in Social Sciences at UFJF; c) Unequal and combined European integration, by Rodrigo Ismael Francisco Maia, Master's student in Social Sciences at UNESP-Marília; d) Underdevelopment, deindustrialization and exploitation of natural resources: oil from the pre-salt layer as a key or obstacle to national development, authored by Marina Gusmão Mendonça, PhD in Economic History from USP, professor at the Escola Paulista de Política, Economia and Business (EPPEN) at UNIFESP, collaborating professor in the Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences at UNESP-Marília and co-authored by Rafael Almeida Ferreira Abrão, Bachelor in International Relations at EPPEN at UNIFESP; e) Richard... embodying subalternity on the streets of Quito. An ethnography of internal migration and urban violence in the ecuador of the XXI century, by William Alvarez, PhD student in Sociology at UFSCAR; and f) The responding symbol. Phenomenology of the response in Paul Ricoeur, by Patricio Mena Malet, PhD student in Sociology at UFSCAR.