La ciencia social y la búsqueda de una sociedad justa

It is argued here that social science should be seen as a civic discourse oriented towards the development of more humane and democratic societies. Against the overall tendency to make social science discourse more scientific, in the way physics or engineering is scientific, and thus less intelligible to citizens, the author argues for the elaboration of a social science discourse that is more open and plural in its attempts to understand and explain the social. This requires that the metaphor used to approach the social be that of the text, and that our investigation be devoted to the elaboration of the different ways groups write it and themselves in it.