Resumen

LABRANA, Julio. The theory of social systems and the field of higher education studies. Cinta moebio [online]. 2022, n.74, pp.51-64. ISSN 0717-554X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/s0717-554x2022000200051.

Higher education has become an object of growing interest in the specialized literature. Despite this, most of the available research concentrates on descriptive and evaluative studies, without connecting its developments with the reflections of general sociological theory. This essay identifies the main theoretical and epistemological possibilities of social systems theory for the analysis of higher education, examining the uses of the notion of differentiation of systemic formation planes (interaction, organization, and society) and the idea of differentiation of specialized partial systems.

Palabras clave : social systems theory; higher education; sociology of education.

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