História das ideias, história das ciências humanas e sociologia do conhecimento

Abstract

This article seeks to determine the mutual influence between the sociology of knowledge and the history of ideas within the history of the social sciences. In addition, it intends to outline a preliminary research program for the area in question which integrates relevant contributions from the social sciences and history to contribute to the dialog between parallel research programs for connected development in the history of science and the history of the social sciences, as well as to pursue a sociology of knowledge which is attentive to the political and economic framework of epistemic practices on which it focuses, without reducing these practices to extrinsic discourses or to the subjective intentions of the causal agents.

Qual o futuro das ciências humanas e sociais no Brasil?

“…O que as consumia era um complexo de inferioridade tipicamente colonial, que abalava a intelectualidade de muitos/muitas pensadores/pensadoras nacionais, fazendo vigorar um excêntrico apego ao pensamento eurocêntrico e norte-americano. Tais limites evidenciam em níveis mais nucleares as mazelas da razão crítica das ciências sociais e humanas brasileiras, já que a afeição excessiva aos núcleos teóricos, seja de onde for, avilta contra o próprio fundamento das ciências que consiste justamente na contestação dos pensamentos hegemônicos (ÁGOAS, 2017).…”

Social sciences, modernization, and late colonialism: The Centro de Estudos da Guiné Portuguesa

“…1 There, studies about the epistemic shifts after World War II in the context of colonial scientific research, namely the growing use of social‐scientific instruments to produce information deemed useful from the imperial point of view, have been focused on the activities of the colonial school in Lisbon (Escola Superior Colonial), upgraded in 1960s to become a faculty of social sciences and colonial policy (Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Política Ultramarina), and on other bodies under the direct supervision of the metropolitan administration such as the Junta de Investigações do Ultramar (Board of Overseas Research). Initially attributed to the individual initiative of some Portuguese Africanists (Pélissier, 1980, p. 33), such shifts would in the meantime be considered as ideological byproducts of the political reaction of the upper cadres of Portuguese colonialism to the radical transformation of the geopolitical context, throughout 1950s (Gallo, 1988; see also Alexandre, 2017, chap. 11; Curto and da Cruz, 2015; and Margarido, 1975).…”

“…Using bibliographical sources, both primary and secondary, as well as archival documents, this paper will address CEGP's immediate context and main actors, institutional setting, research activities, publications, and other scientific outlets, and will then offer some concluding remarks regarding the epistemic reach of overseas governmental measures and the practical effects, in metropolitan colonial policies and scientific research, of peripheral imperial bureaucratic knowledge 3. More generally, this paper is intended to contribute to a larger and ongoing discussion on late colonialism, as very briefly schematized in this introduction, and to the advancement of an historical sociology of theoretical approaches, research methods, and scientific concepts that aims to contribute to a clearer understanding of their respective fields of application (Ágoas, 2017).…”