Hierarchy, legitimacy and authority on the sociology institutionalization process as school discipline (1997-2008)

Abstract

This article intends to analyses the recent institutionalization of teaching sociology in High School, between 1997 and 2008, based on the sociological theory of Pierre Bourdieu, specially his notions of symbolic power, field, capital and habitus, focusing the actions of Amaury Cesar Moraes, Ileizi Luciana Fiorelli Silva, Sueli Guadelupe de Lima Mendonça, Elisabeth da Fonseca Guimarães, Nelson Dacio Tomazi, Heloisa Helena Teixeira de Souza Martins, e Lejeune Mato Grosso de Carvalho, pioneers social scientists in this process. Emphasizes the involvement of each one and the network of personal and institutional relations that gradually constituted, as well as their conceptions and representations about their actions and the relationships relating to them, and comprehends the strategical actions that they undertook based in the analysis of different hierarchical positions occupied on the social spaces involved with this institutionalization.