Tom Dwyer

The four BRIC countries, Brazil, Russia, India, and China, are being rapidly drawn together by the tectonic shifts in the global order. To better understand these processes and their implications for internal stratification sociologists from the four countries assembled in October 2011 at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in Beijing to discuss Pielin Li’s (2011) edited collection Jin Zhuan Guo Jia She Hui Fen Ceng: Bian Qian Yu Bi Jiao...

Between the 13-15 of September Brazilian Sociological Society (SBS) will hold its Second Northern Regional meeting in Belem, capital of Para state, at the Federal University of Para. The northern region of Brazil has a land area approximately half the size of contiguous USA, it includes the Brazilian Amazon and is very sparsely populated. Many of the university lecturers and students who will make it to the conference will travel for days, in some cases...