The article discusses the supreme federal tribunal's overall disapproval by significant parcel of the lower ranking judges in contemporary brazil. This work inserts itself into the sociological debate over Brazilian judicial institutions and integrates, therefore, the main field of law's sociology. To that end, the article takes data previously collected and published in other studies, conferring them new systematization and interpretation directly turned to address the inquiry of interest. As result, it founds that the differences in the rules of recruitment of magistrates from the distinct hierarchical levels lead to distinct understandings as for the exercise of the judicial function and, particularly, to an essentially stereotypical perspective that Brazilian judges exhibit concerning their Supreme Court.
Judicial hierarchy; Judicial branch; Supreme Federal Tribunal; Judicial behavior; Courts
