Abstract
This article discusses the relation between education and sociology in 1950s Brazil. We chose three empirical axes: a) the investigations on racial relations known as “Projeto Unesco” in the period of sociological research routinization in Brazil; b) the debate about sociology in high school involving some young researchers in the field since the late 1940s and early 1950s; c) the discussion about the “Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação” which occurred during this period. These axes are seen as reciprocal inflows that allow the verification of heuristic and political aspects in the appropriation of the theme of education by sociologists. Lastly, we verified that studies and discussion related to the educational system and school socialization were subordinated to the problematization of race relations and the reflection about the blocks in social change.
Keywords:
Sociology and Education; Race Relations; LDB