...Bryan McCann Abstract This article explores the nature and influence of the satirical journalism of Sérgio Porto, alias Stanislaw Ponte Preta, in Brazil from 1964 to 1968. Porto’s daily column in the Última Hora newspaper lampooned the Brazilian military dictatorship for its corruption, self...

... to the third of Stanislaw Ossowskis conceptions of social structure, called the functional scheme. See his Class Structure in the Social Consciousness (New York, 1963), p. 58. In this framework, society is divided in accord with the functions each group fulfills in social life. These distinctive economic...

... “may fix in advance the characteristic features of the society which is to be described”; Stanislaw Ossowski, Class Structure in Social Consciousness (London, 1979), p. 176. The concept of elite was originally launched by Wilfredo Pareto. See, e.g., Matras, Social Inequality , pp. 108-110...