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The concept of Ontology has several outlines in the philosophical universe, whether in the analytical or continental tradition, but when we enter the Social Sciences field it is reduced basically to a phenomenological approach. This article aims to understand this phenomenological trait in the Social Sciences, in addition to pointing to other paths on the horizon, mainly using Graham Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO), as well as other authors of this contemporary tradition. Although famous in the philosophical field, it is still very unknown in Social Theory, which opens a new space for debates, questions, and many new articulations.

Este artigo tem como contexto a publicidade e o pensamento comunicacional e objetiva avaliar os alcances e limites da publicidade, no contexto contemporâneo, sob a perspectiva da Teoria Social de Niklas Luhmann, a qual permite o redimensionamento da relação entre comunicação e sociedade, bem como da noção de representação, colocando-se, portanto, na contramão de teorias da comunicação bem assentadas na área da comunicação. Para tanto, apresentam-se reflexões sobre a publicidade na confluência do pensamento comunicacional e aspectos da teoria mencionada, com ênfase no conceito de heterorreferência, seguido de exemplos envolvendo o sistema das marcas e a publicidade. A importância desse artigo está na possibilidade de repensar a publicidade e seus atributos em função do fluxo das diversas correntes do pensamento comunicacional estabelecidas.

Social philosophy takes care of three tasks: the conceptual idea about an institution, how it functions and how it accomplish. In this sense, a challenge to social philosophy, from the point of view of critical-normative research, is to think of the social institution not only as the backbone of society, but, above all, to link it with the social-ontological argument with emancipatory approach; in other words, how a social institution how to deal with its task of promoting social goods and social rights. I intend to explain the philosophical-social requirement of the social-ontological argument in the discussion of critical-normative research taking into account that, at first, the social institution is understand itself as a medium to emancipation and, secondly, this institution stem from a detranscendental reason conception and this refer to a new way to think the social philosophy inside in the historical background of ours social communities.

From an analysis of the Habermasian argumentation carried out in his work "Knowledge and Interest" of 1968, which we worked on from the 1987 translation; and anchored in the works of the Brazilian philosophers Durão, published in his book "A crítica de Habermas à dedução transcendental de Kant" of 1996 and Hansen, in his article published in Revista Crítica, entitled "Os riscos da crítica da sociedade" of 1998, we reflect, in this article, about how Habermas rescues the Theory of Knowledge from the distorted way behaved by Comtean positivism, passing through Freud and Marx to recover it as a Critical Theory of Society. We present the advent of the Information Age and the accompanying communication facilities to present the model of Distance Education as an effective way of extending the reach of Social Criticism as a self-reflection that makes the knowledge as a critical instrument not only for the individual but also of society.

The book presents three articles written from the conferences that Boaventura de Sousa Santos performed at the University of Buenos Aires – Social Sciences Faculty. The issues adressed on each chapter concern topics related to ethics and politics in contemporary societies, as well as the social relations implied on these themes. The growning inequalities among developed and third world countries, as well as local, regional and global relations are presented by the author in order to renew critical theory and to plunge into the political discussion through knowledge production and dissemination. ; O livro reúne três seminários desenvolvidos por Boaventura de Sousa Santos na Faculdade de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Buenos Aires sobre questões relativas à ética e à política nas sociedades contemporâneas. Visando transformar as relações sociais implicadas nas crescentes disparidades existentes entre os países centrais e os periféricos, o autor discute questões locais, regionais e de caráter global no intuito de renovar a teoria crítica e aprofundar a luta política progressista visando a transformação social por meio da produção de conhecimento.

Esse artigo tem o objetivo de apresentar a Teoria Sócio-Cognitiva aplicada ao contexto do desenvolvimento de carreira e ilustrar suas aplicações em pesquisas realizadas em diferentes contextos. O foco do artigo residiu na explanação de variáveis importantes para a realização da escolha profissional, que auxiliam na motivação para a realização deste comportamento. Foram abordados os elementos pessoais, contextuais e de aprendizagem que auxiliam na formação das crenças de auto-eficácia e das expectativas de resultado que, conseqüentemente, influenciam a formação dos interesses profissionais, considerados elementos essenciais na motivação para a escolha de áreas profissionais específicas. Com base na revisão da literatura da área, verificou-se que esse referencial foi replicado em populações de diferentes etnias, de variadas fases do desenvolvimento vocacional, em estudos transversais e longitudinais, com pessoas de ambos os sexos e de níveis sócio-econômicos distintos. Desse modo, destaca-se a utilidade desde modelo para a compreensão da tomada de decisão no âmbito vocacional.

The normative basis of the republican conception of justice is freedom as non-domination. This concept of political freedom comprises social relations in equality of power. Non-domination represents the social condition of not being submissive to the capacity of arbitrary interference of others. Republican freedom presupposes the development of human capabilities in their fullness. The potential for human capacity development must be protected by the legal structure of the State. The State has the function of equating the differences of individuals' assets and resources with their institutional structure. It acts to offer the necessary conditions, rights and basic liberties, to individuals in their social and political life. The Republican perspective of Philip Pettit leads to the normative deduction of republican liberty and to demonstrating that the theory of justice has to presuppose the resources necessary for the development of human life in its condition of equality and freedom. The democratic structuring of society presupposes the establishment of social relations that are characterized by the social status of non-domination.

From the point of view of critical theory and social criticismo the idea of ​​progress seems to be established in an ambivalence: on the one hand, the postulates of Amy Alllen started an "Aufklärung" of the conception of progress ( which I call the "negative" conception) and its possible unfolding to a critical theory as well as for social criticismo; in contrast, the conception of progress can be understood as a "positive way" in which it is guided by the constitutive scope of a critical theory by embodying, for example, the social justice as a social-normative medium to the process of emancipation. Taking into account the aforementioned assertions, I will take up, in this research, the core of the conception of progress in Amy Allen (1) in order to interpose a "positive" idea. In this sense, I will take as a social-institutional and empirical reference the public policy of the 'Mais IDH' social program (More HDI), which is constituted both as a response to the concept of progress in Amy Allen and as a possible condition for the realization of social justice (understood as the minimum conditions of existence) (2).

Os desenvolvimentos teóricos recentes da Teoria Crítica têm passado ao largo da preocupação com a pesquisa social - seja pela pouca importância dada ao "teste" empírico das ideias teóricas, seja pela ausência de estímulo a novos projetos de pesquisa empírica no campo da Teoria Crítica. Essa tendência implica uma importante "mudança" teórica em relação ao antigo programa dialético da Teoria Crítica proposto por Max Horkheimer na década de 1930. O artigo ressalta algumas dificuldades atinentes à articulação produtiva entre teoria e pesquisa - com prejuízo, creio, para ambas, filosofia e ciências sociais.

Pretendi demonstrar, neste artigo, que a história oral proporciona conjuntos de procedimentos disponíveis ao pesquisador para o estabelecimento eficaz de um corpus documental. Aspectos teóricos foram ressaltados para uma compreensão da prática em história oral. Não obstante, as experiências no campo de pesquisa reportaram-me às noções de memória coletiva e subjetividade ao longo do texto. Por fim, demonstrei elementos teóricos e metodológicos para a realização de transcriações.

Com o reconhecimento inquestionável da falência das tentativas de Transição do capitalismo ao socialismo representadas pelo socialismo soviético e pela socialdemocracia européia, para muitos autores foi também definitivamente enterrada a possibilidade de superação do capitalismo. Neste artigo, veremos que não foi assim para outros. É nosso objetivo apresentar alguns elementos fundamentais sobre o significado atual da Transição tanto do ponto de vista da Teoria Democrática, como daTeoria Marxista. A análise aqui desenvolvida fundamenta-se, principalmente, na última obra de István Mészáros – Beyond Capital. Towards a Theory of Transition. ; The definitive death of the attempted Transitions from capitalism to socialismrepresented by Soviet socialism and European social-democracy also brought,for many authors, the burial of any possibility of going beyond capitalism. Inthis article, we will see that this is not the case for other authors. Our objectiveis to present some fundamental aspects of the current meaning of theTransition, from the point of view of Democratic Theory, as well as MarxistTheory. This analysis is based principally on the most recent work by IstvánMészáros, Beyond Capital. Towards a Theory of Transition.

In the nineteenth century, the utilitarian theorists wanted the reform of society by adopting the principle of "the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers" (principle of utility), as proposed by Jeremy Bentham, form which also advocated education as one of the means to achieve these social changes. In this article we attempt to reconstruct central assumptions of Bentham´s theory expressed in his texts, namely A fragment on the government, Introduction to the principles of morals and legislation and Panopticon, which culminate in the educational project signaled in Chrestomathia. The methodology consists in historiographical review. The results and conclusions indicate that Bentham´s educational project of has not been sufficiently considered by later authors despite their influence.