The limits and challenges of Social Sciences in the current situation

Abstract

It is with great pleasure that we present to the reader a special volume, the result of the Student Seminar of the Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences at UNESP/Marília: “The challenges and limits of social sciences in the current situation”, which took place in 2018. On this occasion, several students and researchers, especially students from postgraduate programs, were able to present their work and contributed to fostering discussions about the role of social sciences in the current situation. Curated by the team and editorial board of Revista Aurora, we selected some texts that express the thematic and methodological diversity that were the focus of the event hosted at UNESP/FFC – Marília. There were discussions about the sociology of culture, education, political theory and social movements. Highlights include the texts by Vinicius Tadeu Milani (UFPR) about the thoughts of Raymond Willians; for the article by Letícia Lima de Souza (UNESP), which discusses the teaching of sociology in high school; the text by Vitor Luiz Carvalho da Silva (UNESP), which discusses the impacts of neoliberal policies on housing programs; and that of Friedrich Maier, who analyzes social movements in cyberspace from a Gramiscian perspective.