THE SOCIAL BOUNDARIES OF EDUCATIONAL POLICIES: EQUALITY, MOBILITY AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
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https://doi.org/10.5216/ia.v36i2.16722Keywords:
Sociologia da Educação, Ensino Superior, Mobilidade Social, Classes SociaisAbstract
Present day expectations to bring about equality of opportunity through the democratization of the public school system are hampered by social boundaries. Hirsch’s thesis (1979) can be applied to the case, especially in periods of democracy. Broader access to educational credentials tends to shift the inequality to horizontal levels (Collins, 1979). As enrollments expand numerically, the social effects of education tend to lose their quality and social power. Whereas before, education was a modern mechanism for upward mobility depending little on social origin, it is now losing its characteristic of equality without having removed mechanisms which reproduce inequality. A critical analysis of this model of enrollment expansion points to the need to review its goals and mechanisms for building democracy.Downloads
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