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Scientific-academic field and sociology as a subject-matter in schools

The article focuses on the production of academic knowledge concerning the Social Sciences teaching to better comprehend Sociology in school. The empiric base is composed of theses and dissertations approved between 1998 and 2008. The work aims at interpreting the relations between academic areas of knowledge in the university - Sociology and Education - understood as fields and identify which delimit these fields, through significant categories in the studies, epistemological and institutionalization aspects, which reveal a habitus in the relation with the school environment.

University; Schooling; Sociology Teaching; Sociology of Education


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