Vol. 5 No. 1 (2026)
The Journal Investigación & Praxis en Ciencias Sociales, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2026), offers a critical reflection on contemporary transformations at the intersection of intellectual tradition, geopolitical tensions, and technological disruption. The issue is organized around three main themes: the crisis of democracy and memory, the reconfiguration of pedagogical models, and the ethical dimension of the social subject. In Power, Narrative, and the Crisis of Legitimacy, the symbolic foundations of politics are examined; the article The Blind Ruler revisits Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex to analyze the erosion of legitimacy in modern democracies, while another study explores historical revisionism as a mechanism of political polarization in Latin America. The section Pedagogy in the Face of Liquid Modernity and Artificial Intelligence revisits the relevance of the pedagogical naturalism of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi in contrast to competency-based models and analyzes the challenges posed by artificial intelligence, highlighting the need to strengthen critical thinking and the use of community cinema as a pedagogical strategy. Finally, Geopolitics and the Ethics of the Human examines pendular migration along the Colombia–Venezuela border (2020–2025) and concludes with a reflection on compassion as an ethical foundation for social coexistence.
