Sociology in Quicksand: Report from the VII Portuguese Sociological Congress
The VII Portuguese Sociological Congress took place at the Faculty of Letters of the Oporto University, on June 19-22, 2012. It was organized by the Portuguese Sociological Association (APS). Founded in 1985, this association stands for the development, recognition and dissemination of Portuguese sociology that the dictatorship had regarded as an “inconvenient science.” The fall of the dictatorship in 1974 and the new age of democracy brought...