Ciências Sociais: apontamentos sobre educação, mercado de trabalho e profissionalização nas universidades federais no Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

The struggle of the Social Sciences area in becoming an institution is historical, the obstacle in obtaining the same recognition of areas such as Mathematics or Medicine is not new. Thus, this research intends to seek reasons for this difficulty, trying to analyze the relations between the periodicity of Sociology as a discipline of Brazilian Education system, the territorial-temporal dispersion of graduation school in Social Sciences in Brazil, the coverage of Social Sciences area in university education in Rio Grande do Sul and the formative path of the teachers who teach these subjects. Some theoretical, historical and methodological issues of the research are discussed, such as a historical resumption of Social Sciences as a high school subject, a reflection on the meaning and role of the university, on the profession of Social Sciences teacher and its field , in addition to questions about the constitution of the Social Sciences, their development in Brazil and their representative bodies. Finally, data on Social Science disciplines in undergraduate courses at federal universities in Rio Grande do Sul are presented, as well as data on the t r a i n i n g t r a j e c t o r y o f p r o f e s s o r s w h o t e a c h t h e s e d i s c i p l i n e s .