Notes on the role of the social science in the processes of building hegemony and counter-hegemony

Abstract

This article disputes on the role of social science in the historical evolution of our societies. The cyclic history of revolutions is as well the cyclic history of deconstruction of social science. In recent history, the events that have taken place in the world during the eighties and the first part of the nineties has expossed the weakness of progressist social science to understand the questions and problems of our reality. From this context emerges a debate, which will have its main expression en the Declaration about Science and the use of scientific knowledge approved in the World Conference about Science for the XXI century: a new compromise which took place in Budapest  in 1999, on the necessity to give a new direction to tecnology and natural sciences, but also social science, so it can promote, from a critical view, to the building of a better world.