Abstract
The study analyzed five Sociology textbooks, produced between 1930s and 1940s, in order to apprehend their proposals for learning evaluation. Using content analysis, the objectives, contents and methodologies adopted by these manuals were examined, in view of their possible impacts on the evaluation configuration. The activities contained in these works were also analyzed, as they are important instruments of the evaluation process, in order to classify them according to the intended educational objectives. The results indicate that, given the propaedeutic objective of the teaching of Sociology in the period, the evaluation ended up focusing, primarily, on the sociological literacy of the students, that is, on the assimilation of theoretical-conceptual knowledge of the Social Sciences.
Keywords:
secondary education; history of education; assessment; teaching sociology
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Legend: “The population. The so-called Matus' Law. Immigration and colonization. The language. The arts. Inventions and discoveries.For all nations, ancient and modern, the matter of population, of its greater or lesser density, is of great importance. The ancient, populous, very dense mass of people, are concerned with their nutrition. The modern ones, large and with a population that are not very dense, consider their arms for their industries, especially that of land, farming.The study of population is called “demography”, a term formed from the Greek demos, people, the root of graphein, to describe and the suffix. I believe it is Guiard's creation, who gave it as a “collective study of man”. Engel called it demology. There are those who distinguish demography from demology. In the first, populations are described, statistics are made. In the second, the laws relating to collectivities are studied”.Source: 
Legend: “5. Sociological Aspect of Mechanization.Mechanization is the phenomenon that consists of assisting, reinforcing, completing and replacing the organic with the mechanical. It permits an extension in number, variety, and speed which tends to intensify social and individual life, while at the same time imparting a certain uniformity to things and even to ideas. Mechanization is presented as the latest reflection of human efforts to dominate and control natural forces. It is also the means of neutralizing, as far as possible, the time factor.It is the most perfect and generalized characteristic of modern civilization, and because of its penetration into all spheres of production, it tends to be the basic factor in the economic, political, and social planes of a changing society such as ours”.Source: 
Legend: “Pragmatic, realistic, free from romanticism and metaphysics, Spencer anticipated today's concrete social doctrine. He imposed his monistic synthesis on the foundation of the natural sciences, subjecting all the phenomena of the earth, including the inter-human ones, to a single law - that of the continuity of energy. The development of society, too, revolved around its formula: From indeterminate and incoherent homogeneity to determinate and coherent heterogeneity. Society would be a superorganism, the nature of which results from the nature of its components - the individuals. They depend on everything that surrounds them, and their spirit copies the objects that surround them, passively and dependently. It thus totalizes the naturalistic explanation of men and the world. He is, however, an individualist in ethics, disagreeing, once again, with Comte”.Source: 
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Legend: “The French Sociological School, which attaches great importance to the division of labour, emphasises above all its moral repercussions. These are explained according to what sociologists call mechanical solidarity and organic solidarity. The former, as Hesse and Gleyze note, “has the blind force and impetuosity of instinct”. It manifests itself, for example, whenever the interests of the community are contradicted. If someone tries to destroy a point, derail a tramway, rob a commercial house, “public opinion” turns against him and punishes him. Such solidarity is the only one that existed in primitive societies.But with the development of human groups, this form of solidarity becomes difficult. In large cities, such as Rio, São Paulo, London, Berlin or New York, the approximation between individuals decreases, no one gives importance to the lives of others (as they say) and, therefore, it is not possible to maintain the same psychic ties that bind the inhabitants of a village. At the same time, however, there is a division of labour. Commercial houses multiply, some to sell shoes, others farms, other perfumes, etc.; the village teacher, who teaches all subjects, is no longer the same; so the worker, so the doctor or the bachelor. There are groups, therefore, that are formed based on the difference of their professions, and within them a new form of solidarity emerges, organic solidarity”.Source: 
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Legend: 9. TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION1. To follow the restriction that the concept of Sociology has been suffering in its sense. 2. Sociology is a speculative science in its method and object, normative in its aim. Demonstrate this, remembering the concepts expounded by LESTER WARD and FERNANDO DE AZEVEDO.3. Sociology is a natural science because of its biological and geographical basis, but human because it studies past phenomena among free men who are capable, at least partially, of guiding these facts. Discuss it.4. Specify the object of each of the various branches of Sociology.5. “Sociology is a positive and autonomous science, with its own object”: Discuss it.Source: 
Legend: TOPIC 4. Immigration and colonization policy in new countries.Introduction - Defining the immigrant - Distinguishing immigration-work from immigration-establishment. Development - 1. International conferences have already met to try to systematize the issue.2. Each state has special interests and must have its own policy.3. Study the quota laws in Brazil and the United States.4. The provisions on immigration in the Brazilian Constitution.Conclusion - The freedom of a state to receive or not receive immigrants tends to no longer be considered absolute: There are interests of Humanity.Source: 
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(1) “Sociology Practices” (Práticas de Sociologia); (2) “Sociology Program” (Programa de Sociologia).Source: Prepared by the authors.
Legend: “11. For Durkheim, the primitive form of the family was the .................................................12. For Christians, morality is instituted by .......................... and morality by the ............................. But for the French Objective School, Morality is one..................................................13. The School .................................................. demonstrates that primitive peoples, such as the Pygmies, were monogamous.14. There are three types of Constitution: 1) ............................................ 2) ................................. and 3) ...............................................”Source: 
Legend: “10. FIELDWORK1. Visit a hill, a “slum”. Make sure of the living conditions there. Visit the “Albergue da Boa Vontade”.2. Visit shelters and shelters for minors, for the same purpose. 3. Visit any factory and a model plant (the “Light City” - Cidade-Light, for example). Compare the working conditions and assistance to the worker, in one and the other.4. To make rapid inquiries into the matter and to submit reports, containing the impressions obtained and the measures which seem to fit in each case”.Source: