Current challenges from social sciences in Latin America

Abstract

The transformation of social sciences in Latin American countries in the last three or four lustrums has involved technological and generational dimensions as it has happened in the context of most incidences of science and technology policies openly productive, and the positioning of the management model from the university-company. In this article these transformations are examined to suggest a number of challenges that we face if the purpose from the social sciences is critically contextualized and politically relevant.