Abstract:
This article is a transcription of the first chapter of the report sent by Luiz Costa Pinto (co-authored with Edison Carneiro) to CAPES. Here, the author analyses the historical connections between the process of development of the social sciences and the social change patterns in Brazil. Although this genre of sociological thinking has been common in the 1950s, Costa Pinto's account highlight specially the ambivalences of the constitution of the social sciences in Brazil, what is expressed by the concept of "structural marginality".
Keywords:
Social thought; Luiz Costa Pinto; Social sciences; Brazilian sociology; Structural marginality