A pesquisa em Sociologia no Brasil: uma análise dos Programas de Pós-Graduação

Abstract

The present work aims to understand the impact that the recent Sociology´s transformations as a knowledge´s field have in the conformation of Brazilian Sociology, especially in the elaboration of a research agenda oriented or not by these changes. For this, the empirical cut was the graduate programs in Sociology, due to the privileged nature that this space occupies in the development of the scientific research and knowledge´s production in Brazil. Ten Sociology graduate programs were selected in the country, taking into account CAPES evaluation concept, with selection of the best rated programs; the seniority of the programs, with the selection of the oldest and the regional distribution of the programs made of proportional way. The combination of these criteria allowed the selection of representative programs of the national sociological production. Within the programs, the research lines were analyzed, and the research projects linked to each line, besides the distribution of the financing between the researches and the programs, in an attempt to map the sociological production developed in each program, for further comparison between them. This analysis was made with the help of a category dictionary built from the reading of the abstracts and titles of the research’s projects, enabling the classification of the researches in broader themes.