THE SOCIOLOGY IN HIGHER EDUCATION: MEANING PRODUCED IN NARRATIVES OF DENTISTRY STUDENTS AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ

ABSTRACT: This article integrates the list of studies on teaching Sociology in higher education. It has the objective of how to understand the significance and importance that undergraduate students in Dentistry at the State University of Maringá (UEM) attribute to the discipline of Sociology in their professional training and to relate them to legal discourses and formal courses, along with the competencies of the sociology for Higher Education. The research is qualitative. The results show that the importance the students gave to sociology is in line with the skills of the discipline and the legal and formal questions of the undergraduate degree course in dentistry. However, it is not a reproduction of discourses, but subjects that speak of their concrete experience with the discipline, so that the sociological content starts to produce meaning for their lives and in the exercise of their profession.

摘要：本文整合了高等教育社会学教学领域的相关研究名录。本研究旨在厘清马林加州立大学（State University of Maringá，简称UEM）牙科本科学生对社会学（Sociology）课程在其职业培养中的意义与重要性的认知，并将该认知与法律话语、正式课程设置，以及高等教育社会学（Sociology for Higher Education）的核心能力要求相关联。本研究采用定性研究方法。研究结果表明，学生对社会学课程的重视程度与该学科的能力培养要求、牙科本科专业的法律规范及正式课程设置相契合。但此类认知并非对既有话语的简单复刻，而是研究对象（学生）分享了自身修习该课程的具体实践经历，由此社会学相关内容开始为其个人生活及职业履职赋予切实意义。