Pensar las ciencias sociales en América Latina desde una perspectiva decolonial
Abstract
This research article aims to analyze with a qualitative methodology the vision of the social sciences in Latin America from decoloniality perspective.
In the expositions that underlie the idea of the exclusion and subalternization of the other knowledge, which represents a scheme of the Eurocentric-Modern model prevailing in the social sciences; for this reason, it is
necessary to rethink the role of the same from the pluriversality of thought,
outside the compartmentalized optics of the excessive specialization of
knowledge, promoting its deconstruction and strengthening through the
dialogue of knowledge. In this context, the research offers a look from decolonial thinking, not with the pretension to exercise a conclusive judgment, but to contribute one more element to this already wide.