A sociologia no decorrer da crise : a contribuição técnicocientífica da sociologia à eficácia do lockdown durante a pandemia de Covid-19 no Brasil

Abstract

This Master's Dissertation, under the lens of the social studies of science, aims to carry out a research related to the scientific contributions of Sociology, in the period in which the international and Brazilian health crisis, known as the Covid-19 pandemic, has been developed. This research, when discussing the characteristics of the pandemic in Brazil, wants to know and present how Sociology acted, made itself present, as a discipline of scientific knowledge, with regard to an effective contribution in scientific terms to the specific issue of social distancing or lockdown, proposed by Biomedical Sciences. When social distancing is considered, that is, the isolation of people from their mutual social life, this is certainly also a pertinent issue for the science of society. Therefore, it is necessary to know, to investigate, based on scientific production, which were the published articles that effectively dealt with the theme concerning lockdown or indicated possible solutions. The empirical approach of this dissertation is based on scientific articles published in Sociology journals considered of excellence by CAPES (Qualis A1) during the period from February 3, 2020 to April 22, 202