Abstract

The conformation of the social sciences has been crossed not only by the discussion about its scientific statute and its methodological criteria of demarcation, but by the conception of science and the world that underlies it. To the disciplinary dispute of the sociological field will precede the dispute about what should be understood as science and what the conception of the world accompanies it. This article traces the process of conformation, construction and transfiguration of the social sciences in modernity and contemporaneity, attending to the controversy underlying its epistemic precepts.