Author(s): Ivanilson Bezerra Silva
Journal: Ciência & Maçonaria
ISSN 2318-0129
Volume: 01;
Issue: 01;
Start page: 65;
Date: 2013;
Original page
Keywords: Freemasonry | Education | Modernization | City
ABSTRACT
This paper aims to discuss the involvement of Freemasonry in the second half of the nineteenth century (1870-1900) in the city of Sorocaba, showing that social agents such as had proposed the modernization of the city through educational institutions linked to Freemasonry and Presbyterianism. From the analysis of the concept of field in Bourdieu (1996), the work shows that the city of Sorocaba in the late nineteenth century was configured as a social space constructed through power relations between different social actors belonging to different fields composing the urban dynamics: the political, religious, social and educational. In the political and religious some social workers were from Freemasonry and Presbyterianism and solidify his political project we used several strategies: organization of educational institutions (Masonic and Protestant), press use journalistic insertion in the political field, the modernization of the city, liberation of slaves, manufacturing, among others.
Journal: Ciência & Maçonaria
ISSN 2318-0129
Volume: 01;
Issue: 01;
Start page: 65;
Date: 2013;
Original page
Keywords: Freemasonry | Education | Modernization | City
ABSTRACT
This paper aims to discuss the involvement of Freemasonry in the second half of the nineteenth century (1870-1900) in the city of Sorocaba, showing that social agents such as had proposed the modernization of the city through educational institutions linked to Freemasonry and Presbyterianism. From the analysis of the concept of field in Bourdieu (1996), the work shows that the city of Sorocaba in the late nineteenth century was configured as a social space constructed through power relations between different social actors belonging to different fields composing the urban dynamics: the political, religious, social and educational. In the political and religious some social workers were from Freemasonry and Presbyterianism and solidify his political project we used several strategies: organization of educational institutions (Masonic and Protestant), press use journalistic insertion in the political field, the modernization of the city, liberation of slaves, manufacturing, among others.
