BrazilBrittany Botuarfa and Michael Perret.

Role of social institutions, such as family, religion, labor unions, and place of employment

business practices related to place of employment, types of businesses, length of workday, and hiring practices

Social Life, Religion and life.

People in Brazil are very social many people actually join a labor union to have more right to what they all have to say about employment as a group. People in Brazil are very serious about there religion, most people in Brazil are catholic and are close to the family most of them come from religion based families and never stop believing.

Business practices

Brazil has a wide spread variety of types of jobs and a substantial amount of work for a range of people in Brazil. The typical length of a work day in Brazil is about 7-8 hour weekday. Different types of business or forms of work include mainly labor work. The ways that they hire people or types of traditions that are to hire people are typical interviews. Practices include great healthcare program to ensure that the employee is covered and insured.

Still an Economic country today

Brazil continues to pursue industrial and agricultural growth and development of its interior. Exploiting vast natural resources and a large labor pool, it is today South America's leading economic power and a regional leader, one of the first in the area to begin an economic recovery.

Language

Language: Portuguese(mainly spoken); also Spanish, Italian, English

Nonverbal Communications:

Education

Literacy Rate: age 15 and over can read and write

Education: Expenditures 5.25 of GDP/ School Life Expectancy- 14 yrs

Local governments are responsible for establishing state and education programs following the guidelines and using the funding supplied by the federal government

Shopping Practices

Food

Major Holidays and Customs New Year's Day (Jan. 1); Epiphany (Jan. 6); Carnival (week preceding Ash Wednesday); Good Friday; Easter; Tiradentes Day (Apr. 21); Labor Day (May 1); Corpus Christi (May 27); Independence Day (Sept. 7); Our Lady of Aparecida Day (Oct. 12); All Souls' Day (Nov. 2); Declaration of the Republic Day (Nov. 15); Christmas (Dec. 25).