Higher Education Professors as Study Object and the “Practical Sociology”

Authors

  • Odaci Luiz Coradini UFGRS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7984.2018v17n38p191

Abstract

This paper seeks to present some research results about higher education professors as a social category in Brazil and, in addition, to point some basic problems and limits of this type of study in such conditions. When dealing with higher education professors as social category, the study presents some results from an examination of census sources and from de application of questionnaires. In this application of questionnaires, institutions and samples of professors representatives of distinct conditions relating to social position and to professional conditions and exercise were framed. Regarding the problems and limits of this type of study, it points out to the “practical” conceptions of the uses of the Social Sciences.

Author Biography

Odaci Luiz Coradini, UFGRS

Professor de ciências sociais na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

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Published

2018-06-08

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 38 (2018)

Section

Thematic Dossier

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