Brazil-Mozambique: A Comparative Study about the Establishment of Social Sciences

Abstract

The institutionalization of Social Sciences did not coincide with its emergence, and in some contexts, such as the Brazilian one, its establishment resulted from the merger of two school models (the European model merges with the American one, especially with the school of Chicago). However, it seems to be the latter model (the American one) which characterizes Brazil regarding the building of its Social Sciences domain by combining both theory and research. Based on the review and interpretation of the literature concerning the existing data on the subject as its supporting methodology, this paper formulates the following thesis: whereas in the two countries the institution (of Sociology, Anthropology and Political Science) appears later and the construction of Social Sciences in Brazil is a result of the two merging schools (European and American), the Mozambican institutionalization of Social Sciences comes mainly from a unique paradigm, the European one, which was inherited from colonization.