Sociologia da educação superior nos contextos internacional, regional e local
By: BRUNNER, José Joaquín
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ArticlePublisher: Rio de Janeiro : IUPERJ, 2009DADOS - Revista de Ciências Sociais 52, 3, p. 621-658Abstract: This article analyzes the current development of the sociology of higher education in countries of the Northern Hemisphere, with an emphasis on the United States and Europe, as well as the field's progress in Spanish-speaking Latin American countries, Chile in particular. The autor reviews the processes of academic institutionalization and research professionalization and output in the central countries and its subsequent evolution by geographic diffusion, inclusion of new themes, interdisciplinary emphasis, differentiation, and specialization of approaches due to growth in comparative studies of national systems. The artice also identifies weakness in these same processes of academic institutionalization, professionalization, and research output in Latin America, in contrast with the region's contribution in term of key characteristic perspectives and study topics.
This article analyzes the current development of the sociology of higher education in countries of the Northern Hemisphere, with an emphasis on the United States and Europe, as well as the field's progress in Spanish-speaking Latin American countries, Chile in particular. The autor reviews the processes of academic institutionalization and research professionalization and output in the central countries and its subsequent evolution by geographic diffusion, inclusion of new themes, interdisciplinary emphasis, differentiation, and specialization of approaches due to growth in comparative studies of national systems. The artice also identifies weakness in these same processes of academic institutionalization, professionalization, and research output in Latin America, in contrast with the region's contribution in term of key characteristic perspectives and study topics.
Volume 52
Número 3
Ano 2009
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