CHALLENGES OF INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH: SOCIAL SCIENCES AS INSTRUMENTS OF "EPISTEMOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE" IN THE FIELD OF SOCIO-LEGAL STUDIES

This paper intends to emphasize the importance of interdisciplinary research for the understanding of legal regulation in a hypercomplex social context. To do so, first, it analyzes the difficulties and challenges inherent in the development of interdisciplinarity. Then, the paper conceives "socio-juridical studies" as an interdisciplinary field in which contributions from the most diverse areas of the social sciences can be appropriated by jurists for the development of more consistent comprehension of legal regulation. However, considering the specificity assumed by the theoretical contributions of other disciplines in the field of "socio-juridical studies", it proposes that the social sciences be understood, above all, as instruments of "epistemological surveillance" within these studies.