Determinantes sociais na produção do conhecimento académico sobre a corrupção em Moçambique (2005-2022)

Abstract

This monograph is titled “Social Determinants of the Production of Academic Knowledge about Corruption in Mozambique (2005-2022)”. The research aims to analyse the social determinants that influence the production of academic knowledge about corruption in Mozambique, using the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FLCS) of Eduardo Mondlane University and Joaquim Chissano University (UJC) as samples. For this analysis, we chose Karl Mannheim's theory of Weltanschauung (worldview) developed in the field of Sociology of Knowledge. Regarding methodology, we opted for the qualitative method. We selected bibliographic research focused on monographs produced as a requirement for obtaining a bachelor's degree to collect data. We used content analysis as the data analysis technique. The study finds that the production of academic knowledge about corruption at FLCS and UJC is relatively scarce and that, although it occurs in private institutions, it tends to occur mainly in public institutions. It concludes that the production of academic knowledge about corruption in Mozambique is associated with a vision of the phenomenon as a problem of public institutions, and that the researchers of the analyzed monographs are uncritical of the concept of corruption and the context in which it occurs.