This paper seeks to critically evaluate the paradigm that is still prevalent in the analysis of Health Policies within the academic production in the field of public health. In this sense, it starts from resuming the debate about the so-called crisis of the classic models in Social Sciences. This debate, influenced by several reviews of and criticisms to well-known theoretical schemes in sociology, accounts for both the enlargement of explanatory models and for the diversification of investigation issues and objects. It is therefore fundamental to consider the limits of the explanatory power of too generalizing theoretical models and, on the other hand, to give emphasis to the formation and action of collective subjects and actors, neglecting structuralizing approaches. This paper aims at showing the importance of this debate and its possible and necessary contributions for the academic production in the field of Social and Health Policies.
Crisis of the Classic Models in Social Sciences; Health Policies; Social Sciences and Public Health