The Sociology of Fernando Henrique Cardoso: Contexts, Circulation, Debates and Criticism

This article assesses the analytical and conceptual construct of sociologist Fernando Henrique Cardoso by means of the way the author constructs a development sociology from the 1950s to the 1980s. In order to do so, we put together trajectory components of family, institution, and scenario in this perspective of reconstruction of the theoretical, methodological approach of the author. There is also the objective to assess the sociology produced by Cardoso in a country and in a region that occupy a peripheral situation regarding science, and to highlight elements of the dynamics and vitality that sociology in general has had in peripheral countries, especially in the interpretation and the essays concerning themes such as development, dependency, and developmentalism.