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In this paper the results of a theoretical research on the category of social exclusion are presented, research performed from 2022 to early 2023. From a series of analysis related to the absence of a theoretical base for such category, the purpose was to identify, through document review, which theoretical background this category could be related with. The argument in this paper is that structural functionalism is an alternative for theoretical ground, because with Robert Merton was found that social exclusion is a problem addressed in his theory through the concept of anomie in his sociology of deviation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our research belongs to the field of social studies of science. Within this field, we try to perform an epistemological analysis about Sociology in Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) between 1987 and 2004. Specifically, we will do a documental review of the UBA Sociology career syllabus and a quantitative analysis on the papers presented on the UBA Jornadas de Sociología of 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2004. Our hypothesis is that both in the syllabus as in the Jornadas, epistemological, theorical and methodological elements of the social sciences potsmodern paradigm can be identified. These elements, from our perspective, have important effects in the development of the discipline and the formation of its students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]