The qualifications system reform in Serbia began in 2001, influenced
primarily by the establishment of the European Higher Education Area, which
created the preconditions for the development of a general framework for
higher education qualifications. The reform of the existing qualifications
system in Serbia required a response to the needs of the labor market, which
was developing under new socio-economic circumstances. Since the beginning
of the process, the development of a new system of qualifications has been
implemented through two separate activities - the development of
qualifications frameworks for secondary and higher education which remained
non-harmonized. Although the development of individual qualifications
frameworks for different levels of education is necessary for the
development of a national qualifications framework, we argue that the
separate frameworks remain incoherent to this day, that they do not
precisely define the qualifications required to move from one level of
education to another, when it comes to sociology as a subject, and that this
situation affects the profiling of future sociologists. In this paper, we
intend to problematize such an approach to the development of a general
qualifications framework through the analysis of the contents of a domestic
normative framework related to the general learning outcomes of teaching
sociology at secondary and tertiary levels of education.