Felipe Augusto Franke

Bachelor's degree in Graphic Designer (2012) and Master's degree in Political Sociology (2014) from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil), Visiting Researcher by the Fulbright Commission at Boston University Sociology Department (2017-2018). Currently, PhD Candidate in Political Sociology at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil).

Researcher and member of the following Research Groups: " Projetos Globais e Estranhos: Situações Locais e o Diversificado", "Sociology of Emotions Research Network" and "Young Weber Scholars." Researching about relationships between scientific practice and emotions, with emphasis on Innovations in Social Theory, and also Relationships between Creativity and changes in the Worlds of Work, with main focus on the following topics: Weberian Theory, Sociology of Emotions, Sociology of Knowledge, Creativity and Sociology of Work. Current projects include the systematic analysis of the work of Max Weber, in order to construct a lexicon and a theoretical basis for the study of emotions from a Weberian theoretical perspective. This study has as its starting point the extensive set of key concepts directly and indirectly related to the theme of emotions found in the writings of the German thinker, leading to their categorization of the same, and followed by reading not only the chapters in which such words emerge, as well as the historical context surrounding them.

Other ongoing projects involve the theoretical proximity between Antonio Gramsci and Max Weber, the role of conflict in social theory, and the relationship between Eros and the scientific practice.