SOCIAL SCIENCES AND SOCIOLOGY COURSES IN BRAZIL

history and configurations

Abstract

This article examines the expansion of Social Sciences and Sociology courses, in Brazil, considering: i) the legislative changes; ii) government programs to encourage teacher training courses; iii) the absence of compulsory School Sociology in the national curriculum (until 2008) and its reintroduction in high school (after 2009). The databases used were extracted from the e-MEC website. From the configurations of the offered courses, we identified three distinct moments: one marked by a focus on the training of technical staff, another on researchers, and a third focused primarily on teacher training. From a combination of factors, such as the recent state incentives for teacher training and the reintroduction of the reintroduction of discipline in Brazilian high school, undergraduate courses in Social Sciences and/or Sociology have been expanding and surpassing the number of baccalaureate courses in Social Sciences and Sociology, in Brazil, giving new contours to the history of these courses.