O ensino de Ciências Sociais na Faculdade Catarinense de Filosofia

The history of Brazilian social sciences has been continuously revisited, usually taking as an inaugural landmark the creation of the undergraduate courses in social sciences. Recognizing that the social sciences had different temporalities in the different regions of the country, and that their process of institutionalization occurred sometimes through classes in other undergraduate courses, this work seeks to bring an original contribution to the discussion for this area. The article focuses on the analysis of the first classes of social sciences (cultural anthropology and sociology) created at Faculdade Catarinense de Filosofia (Catarinense Faculty of Philosophy), an institution founded in the 1950’s in Florianópolis, through the "teaching reports" produced by the first professors of these classes. It is important to note the character of the formation of a cultural elite that the institution possessed, and the affinity of the discussions developed in this space with the intellectual debate of that time.