Dados is one of the most widely-read social sciences journals in Latin America. Created in 1966, it publishes innovative works, originating from academic research, by Brazilian and foreign authors. Edited by IESP-UERJ, it aims to reconcile scientific rigor and academic excellence with an emphasis on public debate based on the analysis of substantive issues of society and politics.
Dados vol. 37 n. 3 Rio de Janeiro 1994
Abstract
The Social Sciences in Brazil as compared to Europe and North America were unique in having originated from an intellectual project of self-reform carried out by São Paulo oligarchies rather than from the desire for social reforms as expressed by emerging actors in the new urban industrial order. As a result, the field's institutionalization in Brazil underwent an initial period in which scientific experience was estranged from the broader social context. It was not until the 1960s that Brazilian Social Sciences recognized the theme of Mannheimian intelligentzia as a way to access the circuit of public opinion and civil society. São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, with their respective specificities, both experienced an interruption in this communication between Social Sciences and society following the military coup d'état in 1964. However, despite the government's alienation from social scientists and their research departments, the 1970s witnessed a policy of scientific development, the result of which favored Social Sciences as a discipline indirectly, albeit not intentionally. The social democratization occurring over the last three decades has sparked a change in the recruitment pattern for social scientists as well as the continued institutionalization of this activity and a trend towards professionalization by those who practice it.
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