Abstract

DI PIERO, María Emilia. Hierarchical processes in university secondary schools in Argentina. Universitas [online]. 2018, n.28, pp.61-78. ISSN 1390-8634.  https://doi.org/10.17163/uni.n28.2018.03.

This paper analyzes processes of legitimization of socio-educational inequalities in secondary schools focusing on the production of asymmetries based on the affirmation of distances with respect to “the others” in prestigious institutions dependent on a National University in Argentina. The methodological approach was based on a multiple case study. Between 2012 and 2016 were made observations, documentary analysis, 13 in-depth interviews with “key” actors and 67 semi-structured interviews with teachers. The results show multiple and overlapping processes of “self-legitimization by distancing”: the “others” are the dependent schools of the Province of Buenos Aires, the private schools, the other undergraduate schools or the other specialty. Borders are mobile: a work of hierarchy consolidates these schools into an elite place.

Keywords : Secondary schools; social inequality; elite; cultural differentiation; boundaries.

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