“Conflict and social violence in Gilberto Freyre's empirical sociology”
Conflicts; Gilberto Freyre; Social Thought; Violence
This project aims to present preliminary doctoral research conclusions around the hypothesis according to which Gilberto Freyre empirically describes and explains social conflict and violence in Brazil. Therefore, it is not appropriate to describe him exclusively as a theorist of social conciliation and harmony. Thus, based on a detailed examination of some of his fundamental works, we will try to show that in Freyre coexists an interpreter of the Brazilian past, in terms of a peacefully balanced, harmonious society, and the empirical sociologist of conflict and violence as constitutive phenomena of society national. The bibliographic focus of the research is concentrated on the triptych “Introduction to the history of patriarchal society in Brazil”, which began with the publication of Casa-grande & senzala in 1933, continued with Sobrados e Mucambos in 1936, and ended with Ordem e Progress in 1959.