Positivism in recent gaucha’s historiography approach

• Autor(a) principal: Pezat, Paulo
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Anos 90 (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/6404
• topic: Positivismo; Historiografia; Rio Grande do Sul; Positivism; Historiography; Rio Grande do Sul

The influence caused by positivism in the society of Rio Grande do Sul in the final decades of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century is one of the most characteristic features of the state’s history and culture. From then on, this theme has been motivating a number of research and work on regional historiography. Initially, the approaches were highly influenced by the political situation and by the support or rejection to the power project implemented by the Republican Party in the State, during the First Republic. Later, between the 70´s and 80´s, with more developed professionalization in the area, many of the historians and social scientists in the state, who conducted their masters and doctoral research in other states in Brazil and even abroad, focused their analyses in the aforementioned period and in special, on the results that the Auguste Comte´s thought had caused in politics, society and culture in the southern part of the country. More recently, after the creation and consolidation of state graduate programs in history and other areas of the human sciences, positivism is still motivating new research, with data from documentation that was unavailable before and in new theoreticalmethodological approaches.