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LA- Urbanization in Brazil
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Sociology
Undergraduate 2
11/11/2009

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Captancies created powerful landowners who controlled...
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politics locally and nationally after independence
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Dar Um Jeito
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To find a way around the law
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Since the 1940s Brazil has seen rapid Urbanization due to...
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Poverty and lack of opportunity in rural areas, Mechanization of agriculture (cutting even more jobs), ISI and ELD have created relativly well paying jobs in factories, attraction to "busy city life aka action",
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Poor are stigmatized yet they are
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essential to the brazilian economy and culture.
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Quality of life in cities
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Recife the 4th worst in the world, Cities are unable to provide services to keep up with rapid growth ie, sewers,water,electricity. Industries did not create enough jobs for all migrants
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Most Migrants moved into favelas
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Shanty Slums, squatting, informal economy including crime and drugs but more commonly casual employment and very small businesses.
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Brasilia
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The National capital, built in the late 1950s built in the shape of an airplane, Planned City: sectors for gov, hotels, offices,houses,stores etc. , Doubled gov officials pay to get them to leave Rio and work in Brasilia. Brazilianize efforts; cafes and bars put tables out to block streets and creat a cosmopolitan atmosphere.
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Fictive Kinship
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Treating outsiders as family members
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Aragados
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people who live with a family and who are treated as family members, even though they are not related; often used as informal adoption system
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