RESEARCH ON HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS IN THE FIELD OF SOCIOLOGY EDUCATION: REFLECTIONS ON THEORETICAL CATEGORIES AND METHODOLOGY

This paper presents theoretical and methodological reflections on researches in the field of Sociology of Education in which the subjects are students of higher education. Initially, it discusses the possibilities identified in the theoretical category relation with knowledge as formulated by Bernard Charlot to approach these subjects in their trajectories and school experiences in higher education. It also discusses the need to recognize the overlapping of researcher or group of researchers - who study these higher education students - and field research as these researchers also teacher higher education. In order to support these two reflections, two theoretical fields of Sociology and Sociology of Education are presented, and examples of the aspects analyzed that are supported by three surveys conducted by the author.