Sociologia da Educação Superior nos Contextos Internacional, Regional e Local. (Portuguese)

Sociology of Higher Education in the International, Regional, and Local Contexts. (English)
Sociologie de l'Éducation Supérieure dans les Domaines International,Régional et Local. (French)

NORTHERN Hemisphere; LATIN America

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 author 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 article also identifies weaknesses in these same processes of academic institutionalization, professionalization, and research output in Latin America, in contrast with the region's contribution in terms of key characteristic perspectives and study topics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dans cet article, on examine l'état de développement de la sociologie de l'éducation supérieure dans les pays de l'hémisphère nord - surtout aux États-Unis et en Europe - et son niveau d'implantation dans l'Amérique latine hispanophone, surtout au Chili . On revisite les processus d'institutionnalisation universitaire, la professionnalisation de la recherche et la production de cette discipline dans les pays centraux, ainsi que son évolution due à la diffusion géographique, à l'inclusion de nouveaux thèmes de recherche, de confluences interdisciplinaires, de différenciation et spécialisation d'approches résultant d'un nombre croissant de perspectives comparatives dans l'étude des systèmes nationaux. On voit aussi les points faibles de ces processus d'institutionnalisation, de professionnalisation et de production en Amérique latine à l'opposé de l'apport que cette région fournit sur d'autres thèmes et études. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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