%0 Journal Article %T A contribui£¿£¿o da sociologia para a an¨¢lise de pol¨ªticas p¨²blicas %A Cortes %A Soraya Vargas %A Lima %A Luciana Leite %J Lua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Pol¨ªtica %D 2012 %I Centro de Estudos de Cultura Contempor?nea, CEDEC %R 10.1590/S0102-64452012000300003 %X this article aims to examine possible contributions of sociology to the policy analysis. it argues that theoretical resources offered by sociology - that concentrates itself on social groups, on social norms and on the relationship between social structure and political institutions - are important tools to build up analytical models aiming to understand public policies processes. %K sociology %K public policies %K policy analysis %K societal actors %K cognitive imperatives %K normative imperatives %K institutions. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0102-64452012000300003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en