Modernist Sociology and Historiographic Culture: time and society in the first decades of the 20th century

Abstract

Based on the dialogue between history and sociology, this article seeks the matrices of the interpretation of Brazil from the essay and essayism of the 1930s, revealing the ways in which the diagnosis of Pathological Modernity was established as a starting point for brazilians intellectuals of that period. In one hand, modernist sociology emerges from modernism and investigates the composition of historiographical interpretations, the result of the historiographical culture, and sociological consciousness, which emerges from the nascent Brazilian modernism, on the other hand, the maturation of national historiographical culture that had been asserting itself since the end of the 19th century. Both, produced interpretations in the hands of polygraph intellectuals, non-used disciplinary divisions.