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This paper analyzes the dialogue that the Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman established with two great names of contemporary Philosophy: Jürgen Habermas and Richard Rorty. For this purpose, the paper addresses Bauman's works written in different moments of his career. It demonstrates and explains the sociologist's criticisms to Habermas's philosophy and inclinations to Richard Rorty's Philosophy. It concludes with a comment on the influence of Habermas and Rorty on Bauman's Sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to question this "pedagogical prejudice", making room for a debate addressed to the understanding of the sociological and philosophical knowledge as constitutive knowledge of one of the main social functions of the school, namely: the education for citizenship. We bring also the discussion of the specificity of Sociology and Philosophy in the School, including such disciplines as members of an educational project founded to build a "prudent knowledge for a decent life," as teaches us today, Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2006). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present a brief reflection on the teaching of philosophy and sociology at the basic education. To do so, we rely on the available literature and official documents, especially the Basic Education Curriculum Guidelines of the State of Paraná. After presenting a brief historical analysis of the presence / absence of philosophy and sociology in what we now call high school, I discuss the main objectives of these areas of knowledge. Finally, I briefly discuss my work as a professor of sociology in high school to demonstrate how labor categories of estrangement and denaturalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]