A construção social da identidade da sociologia como disciplina escolar: que sociologia é essa?

Abstract

The context of this research work is the debate about Sociology as a school discipline. Its goal is to investigate the identity of this science inside the school. What is this Sociology? is its effective question. That question unfolds in the proposal of realize how Sociology is being built by the school teachers in their daily relationship with the discipline in some of the schools of the public school system of the state of Rio de Janeiro. There are four elements considered relevant to line off aspects that make us closer to the identity of this discipline: its trajectory in Basic Education; the meanings ascribed to them, which are synthesized in the objectives and specificity of this discipline in relation to other; the content and methodologies deployed in the daily construction of school knowledge of Sociology; and, finally, the place this discipline has been occupying inside the school. The notion of configuration, by Norbert Elias, allowed us to see that identity as a social process in construction. Thus, this research had as source interviews withteachers of this school system, in addition to academic papers and official (national and state) documents.