The Social Sciences and their compromisse with truth and justice

• Main Author: Mauro W. Barbosa de Almeida
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Londrina 2015-06-01
• Series: Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais
• Subjects: Ciências Sociais; Verdade; Justiça; Antropologia
• Online Access: http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/23265

This paper discusses the social scientists responsability in relation to justice and truth, based in the practical and theoretical experiences of the author in the field of Social Anthropology. Although the text adresses the Social Sciences from the perspective of Social Anthropology, it deals with topics in which the researchers and ativists activities require a cooperative action of lawyers, engineers and biologists among the work of sociologists and geographers – all that is involved in the situations when it is necessary to tell the truth and also to judge about justice and injustice in social life. Justice and truth notions are social scientists weapons and they can not be abandoned in the hands of conservative thought.