A PORTRAIT OF RESEARCH ON SOCIOLOGY TEXTBOOKS IN BRAZIL

Abstract

The article presents the state of the art of Brazilian manual production that takes as an object or source of research textbooks (or manuals) of Social Sciences (Sociology, Anthropology and Political Science). Constituent aspects of this production are analyzed, such as the profile of the authors, the focus of the research, their methods, their techniques and main references. It was evident that the volume of articles on the topic in question has expanded since 2014. The journals where the articles were published are, if most of them, qualified in lower strata in the Qualis-Periódicos assessment and located in the Southeast and South Regions. Regarding the profile of the authors, the following characteristics predominate: a) women; b) doctoral degree and; c) Sociology title area. As for the articles, the following aspects predominate: a) focus on the internal analysis of textbooks; b) type of research and content analysis; c) reduced concern with methodological reflections in the field of manuals. References are varied, with no internal citation network in this research subfield, since only three authors are considerably cited by the set of published articles.