A critical analysis on the reconstruction of the historical trajectory of Sociology in basic education: investigating the so-called period of exclusion

Abstract

Among the many ways in which the historical trajectory of Sociology as a discipline of basic education in Brazil can be reconstructed, one of them is through educational reforms and changes in legislation, marking four great periods: institutionalization (1890-1941), exclusion (1942-1981), gradual reinsertion (1982-2007) and obligatory return (2008-2017).
However, despite its importance, there is in the scientific literature a critique of the reconstruction of the trajectory of this discipline by legal landmarks: that it is limited and superficial. In response to this, more recent research has sought to analyze this trajectory in a more complex way. However, even they did not study the second half of the 1940s and
the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, because unrestricted adherence to legal landmarks led to the failure to seek sociology in basic education between 1942 and 1981, with the exception of the normal course. Thus, the objective of this article is to prove the existence of Sociology teaching in the considered period of exclusion. For this, will be investigated a course produced by the TV Cultura of São Paulo and transmitted between 1969 and 1970. In these classes by television, Sociology was actively present
in the section “Human Sciences”, which was prepared with the participation of USP professors. Therefore, the research results point to the potentiality of seeking Sociology in the so-called exclusion period, provided a broader
view of curriculum, beyond legal landmarks and disciplinary curriculum. This means mobilizing, therefore, different agents and fields involved in the recontextualization of knowledge, as theorized by the sociologist Basil Bernstein.

Keywords: history of sociology; curriculum; basic education; 1960s and 1970s.