The scientific community of lusophone analysts of social networks: which is the potential for collective action?

Authors

  • Marta Pedro Varanda Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS/UL)
  • Breno Augusto Souto Maior Fontes PPGS/UFPE
  • Raquel Rego Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa
  • Klaus Eichner Universität Hamburg

Keywords:

social network analysis, Brazil, Portugal, lusophone, social sciences, scientific innovation

Abstract

The development of a lusophone academic research in the field of SNA (Social Network Analysis) have experienced an important growth in this last decade, fact that we found in the meeting we have participated in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Conferences (in 2010, Salvador, Brazil) and the SUNBELT (realized in 2011 in Riva Del Garda, Italy). Therefore, we also found the fact that, despite the increase important in this research field, a true Scientific Community was not yet established: the participants do not know themselves, neither work together. The challenge we pose in this article is to explain how the interdependence between the lusophone SNA develops, and what the main variables are we can observe in the process that would explain us the absence of Institutionalization of this Scientific Community.

Author Biographies

Marta Pedro Varanda, Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS/UL)

Mestre pela University of South Carolina (EUA) e Doutora pela Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille -Lille 1 (França). Exerce funções de Investigadora Auxiliar no Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS/UL), onde foi contratada ao abrigo do Programa Compromisso com a Ciência. Portugal.

Breno Augusto Souto Maior Fontes, PPGS/UFPE

Professor Titular do Departamento de Sociologia e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Concluiu o doutorado na Universidade de Paris III (Sorbonne-Nouvelle). Tem Pós- Doutorado na Harvard University (EUA), na Université de Nanterre (França) e na Universität Hamburg (Alemanha).  É Bolsista de Produtividade do CNPq. Atua na área de Sociologia construindo uma agenda de pesquisas sobre redes, sociabilidades e poder local; no âmbito desta agenda, tem realizado pesquisas nas áreas de saúde, movimentos sociais, ONGs, gestão urbana e participação popular.

Raquel Rego, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa

Iinvestigadora no Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. Doutorou-se em sociologia simultaneamente pela Université Lille 1 (França) e pelo ISCTE-IUL (Portugal). Suas áreas de interesse: trabalho, relações laborais, regulação profissional, associativismo e terceiro setor. Dentre suas publicações recentes destacam-se os artigos "Portugal - Signes contradictoires dans le Portugal en crise" publicado na Chronique Internationale de l'IRES - Variations de la conciliation vie fammilliale-vie professionnelle dans l'OCDE, em 2015, e "Bridging volunteering and the labour market: a proposal of a soft skills matrix" publicado na Voluntary Sector Review, em 2016.

Klaus Eichner, Universität Hamburg

Professor Titular da Universität Hamburg (Alemanha) e Diretor do Institut für Soziologie. Doutor em Sociologia pela Universität Hamburg (Alemanha), onde também realizou estágio pós-doutoral. Coordenou o Núcleo de Estudos sobre Problemas Sociais e Sociologia do Desvio, desenvolvendo intensa pesquisa sobre redes sociais, com importante trabalho teórico-metodológico.

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