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Dados n. 7 Rio de Janeiro 1970

Processo de Diferenciação na Sociedade Colonial

Costa, Fernando José Leite

Abstract

This paper proposes a specific approach to the study of the Brazilian colonial society, in terms of the process of internal differentiation of social, economic, and political subsystems. A main concern was to develop adequate empirical indicators to substantiate that analysis. The increased degree of internal differentiation of the political subsystem vis-à-vis of other subsystems emerged as the most interesting finding.

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Processo de Diferenciação na Sociedade Colonial