A CASE STUDY ON DISTRIBUTION OF SCIENTIFIC CAPITAL AND IMPLICATIONS BEFORE INSTITUTIONAL ACTIONS IN SCIENCE TEACHING AT THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ABC
Using the Sociology of Science and Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of field, habitus and capitals, this work aims to study the social space of the Federal University of ABC in order to try to understand if there is any relationship between the distribution of symbolic capitals of interest to this social space before the implementation of institutional proposals, specifically, the implementation of the undergraduate course of Licenciatura Interdisciplinar de Ciências Naturais e Exatas. The object of study of this dissertation was the university subfield of the Federal University of ABC, which had 730 agents. For the analysis of these agents, it was decided to dedicate the debate around the symbolic capital of the scientific type. Furthermore, it was taken into account that scientific capital can acquire characteristics such as scientific prestige, scientific power and university power. From the analyzed university subfield, it was noted that agents with high university power also have high scientific power and prestige and that there is a kind of relationship between these capitals, so that the greater the accumulation of one, the more likely the accumulation of the others. It was evident that the implementation of undergraduate courses such as the Interdisciplinary Licentiate in Natural Sciences are also strategies that can result in advantages in the accumulation of capital of interest to various agents in this subfield.