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FUENTES, Sebastián. Social demands in Higher Education: From cursism to the state and business linkage of university extension in Buenos Aires. Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2020, n.57, pp.241-270. ISSN 1668-8104.

The article analyzes the development of social links among universities in Buenos Aires, in the context of diversification, globalization and demands for the democratization of higher education. The objective is to understand the practices of linkage in the framework of the relationship between university and society, the search for the legitimacy of the institution in fragmented contexts as ways in which "higher" knowledge is institutionalized in the contemporary world. This is a qualitative research work carried out in four institutions of the City of Buenos Aires between 2014-2016 based on a multiple case study involving interviews and documentary analysis. The unit of analysis was universities with different profiles that carry out extension activities in the jurisdiction. The extension actions are analyzed and compared assuming that in the social link with non-university actors, demands are established that dialogue with particular institutional traditions and positions. The universities are linked by questioning different audiences and offering different proposals as a way of institutionalizing their relationship with society via extension in specific contexts. In order to legitimize themselves in contemporary society, universities build relationships of supply, demand and capitalization of their resources and possibilities in highly differentiated processes, where social demands are no longer carried out only by community actors or social and popular movements, but also by companies, different levels of the States and NGOs. The proposals of "social commitment" among National Universities stand out. Cursism appears as a hegemonic, malleable and updated way of establishing specific relationships with external actors through short courses, in all universities. University welfare policies make visible differences between public and private universities: in the former, policies are developed that aim to contain the "social", and in the latter, it is an instrument of distinction and sale of privileged experiences for students

Palavras-chave : Diversification; Education and Companies; Legitimacy; Role of University; Social Organizations; University Extension Policies; Argentina; Social Demands; University Linkages; Sport.

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