United States
What it makes Brazil, Brazil? Rio De Janeiro: Rocco, 1986. Chapter 7 – The way of social navigation: the malandragem and ‘ ‘ jeitinho’ ‘. As DMatta, Brazilian us we live an ambiguous reality, where, the clutter exists (carnival), that in it allows the excess them, as well as, the escape of the rules, we have the order in such a way, that it demands disciplines it and the obedience to the laws, generating, a difficulty in the understanding of a universal norm and its applicability. The consequncia of this takes in them to learn that it has always a skill to satisfy our wills.
According to its thesis launched in the book: ‘ ‘ Carnivals, malandros and heris’ ‘ , we have a quandary, that it consists of the existence of the individual (infused of universal laws, citizen that modernizes the society) and the person (using of a reception system social personal, subject of the traditional polar region), thus occurring, a combat between laws that must be general. The result was a divided and balanced social system, me the way of both, the malandragem, jeitinho and celebrity ‘ ‘ it knows with who is speaking? ‘ ‘. They would be ways to face these contradictions and paradoxes, in typically Brazilian way. Also it has this mediation in the law, becoming demoralized it. In the third paragraph, it exemplificou situations, that make in them to find ways, to solve our problems, as ahead of one ‘ ‘ forbidden to park! ‘ ‘ , ‘ ‘ forbidden to smoke! ‘ ‘ until the celebrity ‘ ‘ line quilomtrica’ ‘ , at last, the difficulties of our daily one. Through a comparison between Brazil and the countries: United States, France and England, the author demonstrates that in these societies, he has a coherence between the rule of law and the practical ones of the daily life, what he leaves in them confused e, at the same time fascinated when seeing the obedience of these peoples, in relation to the universal laws, and this finishes being translated in terms of: civilization, disciplines, education and order.