A (contra)reforma do ensino médio e o capitalismo histórico

The Brazilian high school, the last stage of basic education, is at an emblematic moment in its history. The law 13.415/2017 puts structural changes in this stage of education, such as changes in workload and inclusion of new curricular components, in line with a new national curriculum, the Common National Curricular Base. We seek to contribute to the understanding of the situation of the curricular component of Sociology (representing the Social Sciences) in this significant movement, specifying the case of the State of São Paulo, given that the component has a history of instability in school education, minimized with its inclusion as compulsory throughout the country in 2008. This contribution focuses on the relationships between the historical moment of changes in secondary education and the ruptures and continuities of the capitalist productive system, using the Systemic Cycles of Accumulation as a tool for analysis. The configuration of Sociology will be approached from the category of powerful knowledge, and how this knowledge is compromised in the current changes.