Resumen

FLORIANI, Dimas. Social Sciences in Latin America: the permanent and transient, questions and challenges of yesterday and today. Polis [online]. 2015, vol.14, n.41, pp.127-146. ISSN 0718-6568.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-65682015000200009.

The article attempts to answer two central questions about the role of Latin American social sciences: What are the main challenges facing Social Sciences in our continent? What are the main questions that we should make ourselves to contribute to the future of democracy, peace and sustainability in our societies? To this end, we seek to make an historical and an epistemological theoretical balance of social sciences since the mid-twentieth century, their different methods and theoretical matrices. In turn, other emerging issues and plural strategies based on new methodological and ethical and political commitments alternatives are presented.

Palabras clave : Challenges of social sciences; Latin America and the social sciences; theoretical and methodological alternatives of the social sciences; commitments of the theory to politics and ethics.

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