Research and method: new looks at classic themes

Abstract

It is with great pleasure that we continue our work and present to the reader another publication from Revista Aurora. In this volume, we present the works a) “Qualitative research in the field of Social Sciences”, by Mario Angelo Cenedesi Júnior (UCES) and Silvia Elena Vouillat (UCES), which reflects on qualitative research, its limits and possibilities; b) “The pedagogical discourse for the teaching of Sociology, in three acts: defense, legitimation and suspension of the obligation”, by Angelo Antonio Puzipe Papim (UNESP) and Sueli Guadelupe de Lima Mendonça (UNESP), analyzing the classification and integration of teaching Sociology and its repercussions in three historical periods, from 1982 to 2022; c) “Between interpretation and program: revisiting the concept of passive revolution in Coutinho and Vianna”, by Matheus Daltoé Assis (UFMS), which seeks to understand how Gramsci's concept of passive revolution was instrumentalized by Luiz Werneck Vianna and Carlos Nelson Coutinho; d) “The 'communist intention' yesterday and today: representations of anti-communism in the Brazilian army”, by Douglas Michel Capiotti (UFSC), which discusses how the Armed Forces came to be seen as an anti-communist institution, always on guard against communism and the communists; e) “Amadeo Bordiga: heyday and decline of a communist leader”, by Marília Gabriella Borges Machado (UNESP) and Marcos Del Roio (UNESP), which aims to expose the trajectory and political thought of Amadeo Bordiga at the time of the founding of the Italian Communist Party until the moment when it was surpassed by the divergent political theoretical position of Antonio Gramsci.