Social Sciences Today: building alternative knowledge for inclusive and sustainable human development.

Abstract

Since the 1999 World Science Conference held in Budapest, the role of the Social Sciences in the construction, production, and dissemination of knowledge has been clearly established. The construction of this alternative knowledge at the theoretical level has a positive impact on economic, sociocultural, and political practice in the regional context. The article describes how this construction generates: a critique of Eurocentric knowledge, the repurposing of traditional knowledge and practices, and a break with stagnant knowledge by recognizing inter- and transdisciplinarity. All of this transforms theoretical cores in the contemporary world, thereby assimilating new approaches to thought. Finally, it establishes the place of Social Studies of Science and Technology in the current social understanding of science, highlighting the Cuban case in particular.

Keywords:

Social Sciences, STS Studies, Alternative Knowledge, Eurocentric Knowledge, Thinking Matrix, Geopolitics.