ADMINISTRAÇÃO UNIVERSITÁRIA: DESVENDANDO O CAMPO CIENTÍFICO NO BRASIL

When you realize that the university administration in Brazil, can be seen as a scientific subdiscipline of administration in the country, and based on the scientific approach to the field of Bourdieu (1983, 2004), the central aim o f this paper is to analyze how the university administration is constituted as a scientific field in Brazil. The main results of this study may point: the identification of 233 agents - researchers, 17 research groups and 18 courses of post - graduate studi es in management acting in the scientific field of university administration in Brazil, according to the criteria used . It was found that there is the presence of themes that are not necessarily related to the administration, but to education or higher ed ucation. Regarding the structure of the field it was noted that there is a relative inequality in this distribution independent of the type of scientific capital (pure or institutional ) considered. It was found that there is greater ease in obtaining scie ntific power that academic prestige in this field. Still , it was concluded that agents tend to operate in locations closer to the dominant to occupy top positions in the field . The most important sources of scientific capital to occupy prominent position s in the field are mainly related to the degree and profess ional experience of the agents