Fragments of pre-academic sociology in normal education in 1935

Abstract

In this article, content approached at the level of the teaching of Sociology in the context of a rural teacher training school in the decade of the 30s is analyzed and discussed.  This discussion contributes in the sense of uncovering aspects and ideological disputes involved in the teaching of Sociology in this period of mandatory inclusion in Brazilian education.  For such an undertaking, we made use of documental analysis, more specifically, of school tests taken on August 10, 1935, at the Municipal Normal School of Alegre, located in the interior of the state of Espirito Santo. We identified that there are, in the teaching of Sociology,  elements which indicate that in this period, its practice was marked by the presence of religious bases, and that “pre-academic Sociology” converged in the teaching of a “pre-scientific,” or “Christian,” Sociology.