It is notable how, in the last decades, Brazilian sociology grew and evolved, and aquired many of the characteristics of a profession. Two questions, however, come from this process. The first is the nature of this professionalization - if it approaches the traditional model of the "educated professions", as medicine or law, or if it approaches what is called today an "academic profession". The second one is the measure, in this professionalization process, in which sociology would have lost or not its role as a "public profession", and the sociologists, their intellectual role. And thus to a third question, that is the pertinence or not of expecting sociology to have and maintain this characteristic of public profession.
public sociology; Brazilian sociology; critical sociology; sociologists; profession
