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HOPENHAYN, Martín. Breaking the boredom in search for new narrations: an interpellation to the social sciences. Polis [online]. 2015, vol.14, n.41, pp.189-198. ISSN 0718-6568.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-65682015000200013.

The ritualization of social sciences in the academic world imposes a dynamic of knowledge production of progressive specializationand stiffness. This makes it difficult to create new emancipatory narrations, namely, providing horizons of meaning that can helpembodying the actions of political and social actors in the deepening of democratic strategies, environmental sustainability, social equality and better coexistence in diversity. On the other hand, out of the academy, in the world of networks and organizations of various kinds, much social knowledge freed from academic ritualism occurs, and with the potential to concur in new mobilizingnarrationsreferringto a global imaginary on civil political, social, cultural and intergenerational solidarityrights.

Palabras clave : Social Sciences; academic ritualism; emancipatory narrations; social construction of knowledge.

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