Master’s Program
1. Mandatory Disciplines
Social Theories and Social Work (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Study of classical social theories in the context of bourgeois society. Marxian social theory and Marxist tradition. Sociological thinking: positivist tradition (functionalism and systemic vision); comprehensive sociology; contemporary social theories; influences of social theories in Social Work.
Socioeconomic Training of Brazil and the Amazon (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Formation of world capitalism and economic, political and social formation of Brazil and the Amazon. The insertion of the Amazon in the national and world market. The transition from the primary-export model to the industrial economy. The "social question" in Brazil. The Brazilian and regional development model. The economic, political and social crisis in Brazil and the Amazon in the context of the globalization of the economy.
Work and Social Relations in the Current Line 2 (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Work as the foundation of the constitution of the social being. The capitalist mode of production and the institutionalization of wage labor. The different forms of organization and management of work. The crisis of capital and its coping strategies: globalization and financialization of capital, productive restructuring, and flexible labor relations. The ways of working today. The impacts on the requisites and socio-professional competences of the Social Worker and its particularities in the Amazon.
Social ServiceSocial Work and Social Policy in the Amazon Line 1 (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Social ServiceSocial Work in history and the institutionalization of the profession in the socio-technical division of labor. The historical and theoretical-methodological trends in Social Work. Vocational training, professional intervention and socio-occupational spaces. The Ethical-Political Project of Social ServiceSocial Work. Public policies and social policies. The struggles and social movements in coping with the expressions of the "social question" and in the defense of social rights.
Seminar of Social Research Methodology (2 Credit Units, 30 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: The question of theory and method as elements of knowledge construction. Planning and elaboration of research projects. Quantitative and qualitative research instruments.
2. Elective Disciplines per research line
Research Line 1 - Social ServiceSocial Works and Social Policies in the Amazon
Theoretical-Methodological Foundations in Social Work (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Genesis and development of the Social ServiceSocial Work profession in capitalist society. Construction of the theoretical-methodological and practical intervention bases in the different periods of the profession. The positivist tradition and the Marxist tradition in Social ServiceSocial Work. Marx's Social Theory: the dialectical method. The category of mediation and Social ServiceSocial Work: reflective and ontological dimensions. Professional intervention in the light of the dialectical perspective: instrumentality and mediation. The production of knowledge in Social Work. Professional training: teaching theory and practice. Contemporary Challenges.
Society, Nature, and Territory (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: The categories nature and territory in the debate of critical social theory. The process of transformation of the relationship between man and nature in capitalist society. Capitalist social relations and territorial constitution. The different approaches to the concept of territory and its appropriation by government policies. The relationship between society and territory as processes and practices of resistance, structuring, transformation and appropriation of the territory in the dimensions of sociability, politics, culture and material production.
Urban Issues and Housing Policy in the Amazon (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Classic and contemporary debate on the production and appropriation of the capitalist city. Urbanization process in Brazil and the Amazon. Conceptions of urban planning and management. Particularity of housing in small cities in the Amazon. Housing policy in the state of Pará.
Urban-Rural and Social Movements in Brazil and the Amazon (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Field and city relationship in the Amazon: historicity and development in the current stage of capitalist accumulation (20th and 21st century). Conceptual analysis of social movement: theories, conceptions and controversies. Popular social struggles and political organization in the construction of alternatives in Latin America. Conflicts and social movements in the countryside and in the city in the Amazon context: political balance and perspectives. Socioprofessional demands on the urban-rural relationship for Social ServiceSocial Work: focus on the contemporary social struggles in Brazil and the Amazon. Social movements as a field of research and professional performance of social serviceSocial Work.
Conjuncture and Contemporary Themes in Social ServiceSocial Work (2 Credit Units, 30 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Debate on the Brazilian conjuncture. Contemporary themes of Social ServiceSocial Work.
Research Line 2 - Social Work and Work in the Amazon
State and Society in Contemporary Capitalism (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Machiavelli and politics. Classic conception of liberal state (Hobbes and Locke). State Statistical Perspective (Weber). Marx and Engels' negative theories of politics. Understanding the state of Lenin. Enlarged Marxist theory of the Gramsci state. Theory of state in Poulantzas. State and civil society. Neoliberalism and the new state configuration. State: new geopolitics and world system. State economy and politics: current issues. State and society. The configuration of the bourgeois state and its forms of expression in the reality.
Development and Human Rights in the Amazon (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours).
Syllabus: Different conceptions of development, the limits and challenges of sustainable development, and the debate on human rights today. National-developmentalism critique and neodevelopmentism in the Latin American context. Human rights in the effective practice of individuals in society.
Imperialism, Regional Inequality and Conflicts in the Pan-Amazon (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Pan-Amazon Political Economy and Capital Accumulation in the Brazilian Amazon from the 1970s. Imperialism in the 21st Century. The reiteration of regional and social inequality in the context of the national and international division of labor. The contemporary challenges to Public Policies in relation to the advancement of (neo) development projects (infrastructure, mining, energy, agribusiness, etc.). Conflicts and social struggles and resistance in the countryside and in the city. The (re) production of expressions of the social question in the region.
Interdependence of Social Relationships of Class, Gender, Race / Ethnicity, Age and Interterritoriality (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Problematization and contextuality of knowledge production on the social relations of class, gender, race / ethnicity, age and interterritoriality. Reflection and confrontation of prejudice and discrimination in the bosom of old and new paradigms.
Work and Public Policies in the Amazon (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Public Policies in the spirit of neoliberal orientation. Trajectory of the Brazilian social protection system in the context of capitalist accumulation. The conceptual debate on public policy and social policy. Neodesenvolvimentismo and the debate on inequality and poverty. Work and Public Policies: particularities of the Amazon. Labor and State in the Amazon (public policies of generation of work, employment and income). Analysis of social indicators in the Amazon.
Doctorate
1. Mandatory Disciplines
Advanced Studies in Social Theories and Social Work (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Study of classical social theories in the context of bourgeois society. Marxian social theory and Marxist tradition. Sociological thinking: positivist tradition (functionalism and systemic vision); comprehensive sociology; contemporary social theories; influences of social theories in Social Work.
Advanced studies in Socioeconomic Training in Brazil and the Amazon (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Formation of world capitalism and economic, political and social formation of Brazil and the Amazon. The insertion of the Amazon in the national and world market. The transition from the primary-export model to the industrial economy. The "social question" in Brazil. The Brazilian and regional development model. The economic, political and social crisis in Brazil and the Amazon in the context of the globalization of the economy.
Research Seminar I (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Construction of the research object. Discussion of reflexive categories about the object. Research project.
Research Seminar II (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Discussion of reflexive categories about the object. Research project. Construction of the thesis.
Social ServiceSocial Work and Social Policy in the Amazon - Line 1 (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Social ServiceSocial Work in history and the institutionalization of the profession in the socio-technical division of labor. The historical and theoretical-methodological trends in Social Work. Vocational training, professional intervention and socio-occupational spaces. The Ethical-Political Project of Social ServiceSocial Work. Public policies and social policies. The struggles and social movements in coping with the expressions of the "social question" and in the defense of social rights.
Social ServiceSocial Work and Social Policy in the Amazon - Line 2 (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Work as the foundation of the constitution of the social being. The capitalist mode of production and the institutionalization of wage labor. The different forms of organization and management of work. The crisis of capital and its coping strategies: globalization and financialization of capital, productive restructuring, and flexible labor relations. The ways of working today. The impacts on the requisites and socio-professional competences of the Social Worker and its particularities in the Amazon.
2. Elective subjects common to both Research lines
Research Methodology (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: The question of theory and method as elements of knowledge construction. Planning and elaboration of research projects. Quantitative and qualitative research instruments.
Special Topics in Social Policy (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Social Policy in the contemporary world in the context of Latin America and Brazil.
Special Topics in Social Work (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Social work in the contemporary world, with emphasis on Latin America and Brazil. Trends in the theoretical-methodological debate. Profiles of the labor market and demands in social policies. Technical-operative dimension in face of new requisitions. The ethical-political project.
Special Topics in Social Theories (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Theoretical and methodological foundations for the interpretation of social relations in contemporaneity. Modernity and Post-Modernity. The question of ideology. Social question and its expressions in contemporary capitalism.
Special Topics in Research (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Research in Social Sciences. Methodological trends and their refutations in Social Work.
3. Elective Disciplines per research line
Research Line 1 - Social ServiceSocial Works and Social Policies in the Amazon
Theoretical-Methodological Foundations in Social Work (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Genesis and development of the Social ServiceSocial Work profession in capitalist society. Construction of the theoretical-methodological and practical intervention bases in the different periods of the profession. The positivist tradition and the Marxist tradition in Social ServiceSocial Work. Marx's Social Theory: the dialectical method. The category of mediation and Social ServiceSocial Work: reflective and ontological dimensions. Professional intervention in the light of the dialectical perspective: instrumentality and mediation. The production of knowledge in Social Work. Professional training: teaching theory and practice. Contemporary Challenges.
Urban Issues and Housing Policy in the Amazon (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Classic and contemporary debate on the production and appropriation of the capitalist city. Urbanization process in Brazil and the Amazon. Conceptions of urban planning and management. Particularity of housing in small cities in the Amazon. Housing policy in the state of Pará.
Urban-Rural and Social Movements in Brazil and the Amazon (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Field and city relationship in the Amazon: historicity and development in the current stage of capitalist accumulation (20th and 21st century). Conceptual analysis of social movement: theories, conceptions and controversies. Popular social struggles and political organization in the construction of alternatives in Latin America. Conflicts and social movements in the countryside and in the city in the Amazon context: political balance and perspectives. Socioprofessional demands on the urban-rural relationship for Social ServiceSocial Work: focus on the contemporary social struggles in Brazil and the Amazon. Social movements as a field of research and professional performance of social serviceSocial Work.
Society, Nature and Territory (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: The categories nature and territory in the debate of critical social theory. The process of transformation of the relationship between man and nature in capitalist society. Capitalist social relations and territorial constitution. The different approaches to the concept of territory and its appropriation by government policies. The relationship between society and territory as processes and practices of resistance, structuring, transformation and appropriation of the territory in the dimensions of sociability, politics, culture and material production.
Conjuncture and Contemporary Themes in Social ServiceSocial Work (2 Credit Units, 30 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Debate on the Brazilian conjuncture. Contemporary themes of Social ServiceSocial Work.
State and Society in Contemporary Capitalism (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Machiavelli and politics. Classic conception of liberal state (Hobbes and Locke). State Statistical Perspective (Weber). Marx and Engels' negative theories of politics. Understanding the state of Lenin. Enlarged Marxist theory of the Gramsci state. Theory of state in Poulantzas. State and civil society. Neoliberalism and the new state configuration. State: new geopolitics and world system. State economy and politics: current issues. State and society. The configuration of the bourgeois state and its forms of expression in reality.
Research Line 2 - Social Work and Work in the Amazon
Development and Human Rights in the Amazon (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours).
Syllabus: Different conceptions of development, the limits and challenges of sustainable development, and the debate on human rights today. National-developmentalism critique and neodevelopmentism in the Latin American context. Human rights in the effective practice of individuals in society.
Imperialism, Regional Inequality and Conflicts in the Pan-Amazon (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Pan-Amazon Political Economy and Capital Accumulation in the Brazilian Amazon from the 1970s. Imperialism in the 21st Century. The reiteration of regional and social inequality in the context of the national and international division of labor. The contemporary challenges to Public Policies in relation to the advancement of (neo) development projects (infrastructure, mining, energy, agribusiness, etc.). Conflicts and social struggles and resistance in the countryside and in the city. The (re) production of expressions of the social question in the region.
Interdependence of Social Relationships of Class, Gender, Race / Ethnicity, Age and Interterritoriality (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Problematization and contextuality of knowledge production on the social relations of class, gender, race / ethnicity, age and interterritoriality. Reflection and confrontation of prejudice and discrimination in the bosom of old and new paradigms.
Work and Public Policies in the Amazon (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Public Policies in the spirit of neoliberal orientation. Trajectory of the Brazilian social protection system in the context of capitalist accumulation. The conceptual debate on public policy and social policy. Neodesenvolvimentismo and the debate on inequality and poverty. Work and Public Policies: particularities of the Amazon. Labor and State in the Amazon (public policies of generation of work, employment and income). Analysis of social indicators in the Amazon.