Cuba:: nuevas perspectivas para las ciencias sociales

Social Sciences in Cuba show in their development a set of strengths and challenges in terms of perspectives, either in their firmness as a community, as well as in their relation with society, in general, and government agencies. At present, the economic transformations’ context in our country leads to the need of an ongoing fostering of a dialogue attitude among the different scientific disciplines and institutions in the social field, to keep a critical stand regarding the reality being studied, as well as strengthening their positive capacities. Such requires a better awareness on the part of the policy makers regarding the roles of social scientists in the different stages of the social policy development. Likewise, there is a need for a better visibility of its contributions as from the scientific policies’ priorities.