Sociologias 

About: Sociologias is an academic journal published by Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Context (language use). It has an ISSN identifier of 1517-4522. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 825 publications have been published receiving 9876 citations.

Security, territory, population (Lectures at the College de France)

Abstract: The work depicts the course of the same name delivered by Michel Foucault at the College de France (1977-1978), where the author has developed the genealogy of a political knowledge centered on the mechanisms that enable to control people. "The government of the self and others" are questioned along a historical course that resulted in a "reason of State", whose rationality entailed in the construction of sets of knowledge and technologies of power, necessary for the growth of State forces. In explaining the problems that the Polizeiwissenschaft should control, he defined the role of the police as a guarantor of internal order and as a technique for controlling people, invested with specific knowledge, and which constitutes, along with the security and the political economy, what Foucault called biopolitics.

Políticas públicas: uma revisão da literatura

Abstract: The article presents a review of the main concepts and models for making and assessment of public policies, seeking to synthesize the state of the art in the field, that is, to map how classic and more recent literature approach the subject. The article also seeks to discuss possibilities for application of distinct streams of neo-institutionalist theories to the assessment of public policies.

A Teoria Queer e a Sociologia: o desafio de uma analítica da normalização

Abstract: Originated from the American Cultural Studies, Queer Theory has gained a reputation as a critical counterpoint to the sociological studies on sexual minorities and the political identity of the social movements. Based on a creative implementation of post-structuralist philosophy for the understanding of how sexuality shapes the contemporary social order, for more than a decade its affinities and tensions, as related to the social sciences, and particularly to sociology, are in discussion. This article joins the debate, analyzes the similarities and distinctions between those two, and finally presents an overview of the current dialogue, pointing to a possible convergence in the queer project to enable an analysis of normalization.