The working class representations in the Brazilian academic production. An evaluation of the 1960’s and 1970’s

Abstract

The academic production of the 1960’s and 1970’s, which is devoted to the study of the Brazilian working class, brings with itself the futures expectations of their specialists. Therefore, the past appears as sign of what will come according to world representations, of history and of the working class. Those representations, on one side, are constituted historically, through the incorporation of the sociocultural configurations; and, on the other hand, they show as producers of the practice and of the academic speech, establishing the theoretical fields of interpretation of the Brazilian working class. Starting from this perspective, we related interpretations of part of the academic production, of the decades of 1960 and 1970; with the sociocultural conditions of the country and with the internal dynamics of the academic production field, looking for understand their practices and representations.