The theoretical assay presents the proposal of Alberto Guerreiro Ramos on sociological reduction in the dimension of historical method and parenthetical position as suggested theme to study of scientific field of public administration in Brazil. We seek to dialogue with two questions: “How can we develop a more systematic understanding of national public administration?” and “What we need to (re)meet in order for the national field of public administration become more responsive, better corresponding to local public anxieties?”. Based on Guerreiro Ramos, we suggested that the field uses the meth the methodological use of history studies; and parenthetical-substantive action. The first concerns to the critical assimilation of foreign intellectual that would allow one communitu no to be restrict to other communities experiences to achieve their own historic projects. The second is related to a lucid and active positioning of humans in relation to the factors that influence them, allowing an active set of those in society and especially in economic organizations. Reviving the need of Brazilian researchers use of scientific knowledge and foreign productions in a subsidiary way, once there is an intention of meeting the needs of a reality that, in many points, is presented differently from the realities in which the theories/models have emerged; foster parenthetical-substantive conception of individuals to build models of organization which, althought not excluding, make the organizational economic models to divide spaces with more models designed to ensure the quality of life, self-actualization, the primary social interaction, social satisfactions and participation in the production of public goods.
Guerreiro Ramos; Sociological reduction; Scientific field; Public administration; Brazil