Alberto Guerreiro Ramos

Alberto Guerreiro Ramos (13 September 1915—6 April 1982) was a Brazilian sociologist and politician. An influent Afro-Brazilian thinker, he was instrumental on the development of a native sociological framework, criticizing the use of European paradigms for studying the Brazilian society, especially race relations and the condition of the Black people in Brazil. He advocated for appropriating those concepts to the national reality (what he called ''sociological reduction)''. He was also a leading figure in organization theory

In 1956, Pitirim Sorokin, analyzing the situation of sociology in the second half of the 20th century, included Guerreiro Ramos among the authors who most contributed to the progress of the discipline. Provided by Wikipedia