ABSTRACT
The chapter discusses how since the 1950s, González Casanova has contributed to the creation of social research models that deliberately set out to include the theoretical and political conflict between different currents of thought with the aim not only of establishing research differences but also of evaluating the explanatory and political potential of each of these. It is argued that this approach continued in the 1960s and 1970s, a time when González Casanova can be considered a precursor to the Gulbenkian Commission for the Restructuring of the Social Sciences headed by I. Wallerstein in 1993 to investigate the construction of the social sciences from the eighteenth century until 1945 and to propose their restructuring.
