A short summary of the central questions regarding the teaching of Sociology in Brazilian secondary schools: the intermittent character of the teaching, the fragmentation of the researches, the difficulties in the consolidation of minimum contents and didactic materials. Based on a recent bibliography and on my own experience as Professor of Teaching Methodology of Social Sciences, I relate these difficulties, on the one hand, to the distance and hierarchization that exist between the social scientists as academic intellectuals and the social scientists as secondary teachers and, on the other, to the divorce and unbalance existing between the educational development of bachelors in social science and those taking Diploma in Education within the model in effect since the faculties of philosophy, sciences and letters were created in the 1930' s.
The teaching of sociology; Diploma of education; Teacher development; Social sciences; Secondary school