Meo, Analía (2007) Social class, identities and secondary schooling : an ethnographic study in two schools of the city of Buenos Aires. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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This study draws on Bourdieu’s theory of social praxis and on sociological theories of identity making in order to better understand the relationships between social class and educational inequalities in secondary schooling in the context of the socially and educationally fragmented education system of the City of Buenos Aires (Argentina). I seek to respond to some of the key gaps in the Argentinean literature by examining the ways in which two secondary schools participate in the local state education system and how students from different social classes interact with the demands of these schools while producing their class and gender identities. This research makes a substantial contribution to the Argentinean field of Sociology of Education. This is in terms of studying the ways in which schools compete in the local state system, of examining the views of students about their schooling experiences, of engaging with ethnographic methods, and of critically using Bourdieu’s analytical framework in connection with sociological perspectives on identity to make sense of the data collected. This thesis argues that social class is a powerful explanatory concept with which to understand inequalities between schools and different groups of students. Schools and students participated in the production and reproduction of their unequal positions in the educational field and did so with differential cultural, economic and social resources or “capitals”. I present evidence of how these inequalities could be traced in the meanings attached by schools and students to secondary schooling; in the schools’ recruitment policies and families’ school choice processes; in students’ abilities to recognise the “stakes” of the game of secondary schooling; and, finally, in the ways in which students’ produced their class and gender identities in their relationships with peers

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools L Education > LC Special aspects of education
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Education, Secondary -- Social aspects -- Argentina, Social classes, Educational equalization -- Argentina
Official Date:	January 2007
Dates:	Date Event January 2007 UNSPECIFIED
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Department of Sociology
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor:	Parker, Andrew, 1965- ; Hughes, Christina, 1952-
Format of File:	pdf
Extent:	341 pages
Language:	eng

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