Sociology as a highschool discipline in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay

This article describes how Sociology was constituted as a specific discipline in high school in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, without developing the regional differences with in each national territory. In order tot his, the particular contexts of Sociology's emergence in each country will be analyzed, as well as the ways in which this subject is currently taught in schools, based on a brief analysis of different school resources such as manuals, regulations such as curricular designs or the latest national education allaws, in each case. After a brief introduction, each of the experiences is recovered to make a comparative analysis based on what was presented. The papershows how Sociology, as a high school subject, has been associated with different traditions or influenced by other disciplines, in each country and in the context of its emergence. The question is guided by the meaning of this subject in school classrooms and its potential to promote critical thin king.