Personal report or primacy of structure? From oral history to structural history as a model for historical sociology: the case of USP’s institutional history

• Autor(a) principal: Carlotto, Maria Caramez
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Tempo Social (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/ts/article/view/180874
• topic: Universidade de São Paulo; Sociologia histórica; História oral; História estrutural; História institucional; University of São Paulo; Historical sociology; Oral history; Structural history; Institutional history

The present article intends to analyze, sociologically, the historiography about the University of São Paulo,  highlighting the writing and  publication patterns of the different “USP’s history” that corresponds to a different social position within the institution. In this sense, the “officialhistory” of usp, written from privileged positions and marked by the primacy of personal and finalist reports, is contrasts with the “history of losers”, of a philosophical nature, marked by thedefense of USP’s “original” project, anchored at the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters. Finally, we show how the structural history, which  allows the central analytical operation of the present article, also corresponds to a specific historiographical tradition, linked to the social sciences, especially sociology, which also has its own place in the institution.