A Desigualdade Invisível
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Formal equality of rights and opportunities does not, by itself, ensure that all people have the same conditions to understand and exercise those rights or to benefit from available opportunities. This article investigates capability inequality, understood as differences in the effective conditions for developing and using capacities required to understand reality, assess information, make decisions, and participate in society. The study takes as its initial foundation the book BRASIL, TOME AS RÉDEAS! — Book I: The Citizen and the Exercise of Power, particularly its chapters on education, economic inequality, and territorial access to the State. This foundation guides but does not replace an independent academic investigation. The analysis is organised around three interrelated dimensions: the quality of education, the aims of educational formation, and learning conditions. It also examines how differences in capabilities may affect professional opportunities, social mobility, intellectual autonomy, and the exercise of citizenship. The study adopts a qualitative, bibliographical, documentary, and analytical approach, supplemented by relevant statistical data and empirical research. It seeks to distinguish schooling, learning, and effectively developed capabilities, avoiding the attribution to education alone of phenomena that also depend on economic, family, cultural, territorial, and institutional factors. Conclusions will be proportionate to the scope and quality of the evidence examined.
Author: de Paula, Abdon
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225448905