O cortiço paulistano entre as ciências sociais e política: The paulista slum tenement between social sciences and politics

Abstract

The article analyses the complex inter relations between the production of Social Sciences and the processes of establishing State Public Policies related to the Slum Tenement housing in São Paulo. I deal with the production of the social scientists that worked with slum tenement housing and at the same time focus on the State policies devoted to the improvement of its inhabitants' life conditions since 1893. The social scientists denounce the precarious conditions of life of the inhabitants of the slum tenement housing, but the responses of the State Policies take a long time and are not satisfactory. What is necessary to mobilize the so well known political will? Despite the reduced impact of academic studies in State Policies, the analyses and conclusions of social scientists' works are able to produce a lasting and cumulative effect, demanding more from the Social Sciences, from inter disciplinary studies and from basic research.