The goal of this article is to analyse diferent teorethical and methodological approaches of classes structures typologies, the empírical metrics aplied in Brazil and their implications on public policies. Therefore, it is discussed the main theoretical currents that proposed the typologies and...

The goal of this article is to analyse diferent teorethical and methodological approaches of classes structures typologies, the empírical metrics aplied in Brazil and their implications on public policies. Therefore, it is discussed the main theoretical currents that proposed the typologies and...

This paper gives a demographic approach to the matter of the Brazilian demographic ageing. It discusses the relationship between ageing and dependence. It also tries to evaluate if to be elderly today, 1998, it is different of being elderly in the recent paste, 1981. The data utilized are from...