“…Modernization and development were integral to the Latin American context, spawning categories such as "structural marginality," proposed by Costa Pinto, the "Brazilian social dilemma," coined by Florestan Fernandes, and the "Argentine paradox," proposed by Gino Germani (Villas Bôas, jul.-dez. 2005;Brasil Jr., 2013). For these thinkers, this theory, linked to the ideas of development and social change, was grounded on the assumption that the expansion of modern society yielded the same social effects, albeit at varying paces and along different trajectories (Brasil Jr., 2013).…”