Memorias de titulación en el marco de la producción en sociología hoy

Abstract

In the context of a reflexivity and auto-observation process in social sciences, the present article seeks to analyze the features that characterize the production of undergraduate thesis in sociology at Universidad de Chile. With this purpose, it approaches the problem of how to situate the professional habilitation works in the context of general sociological production, along with identifying tendencies that might be the reflex of the discipline’s intern developing and its institutional, politic and social changes. It’s suggested that undergraduate thesis constitute key publications for the research of scientific communications, insofar as they involve intellectual aspects of the science system, along with the academicals units’ own organizational and cultural dynamics. Their analysis also reflects that the tendencies in undergraduate thesis production show a lower relation with a multiparadigmatic development of sociology, than with the theoretical and pragmatic adjustment criteria, consistent with progressive work agendas, situated according to the interests of interns, academics or undergraduate students.