Modernization, Race, and the Rural Past in Brazil: A Transnational Analysis of Donald Pierson’s Sociology (1930–1950).
This article analyzes the US sociologist Donald Pierson’s views on the process of modernization as expressed in research he conducted while residing in Brazil from the 1930s to the 1950s. Looking first at his study on race relations in Bahia and then at his investigations of rural communities in the...
| Published in: | Latin American Research Review Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 298 - 316 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jun2022
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