INSTITUTIONAL DIFFERENTIATION IN BRAZILIAN HIGHER EDUCATION AND DIMENSIONS OF INEQUALITY

Authors

  • Maria Ligia Barbosa UFRJ

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33148/CES(2169)

Abstract

This article proposes to analyze two empirical cases to highlight the different meanings and possible impacts of the current institutional model in the Brazilian higher education system (HES). It focuses on the permanence of social cleavages within the higher education system, through institutional diversification. The construction of academic and social hierarchies within the process of diversified expansion of the Brazilian SES is verified. To this end, the impacts of institutional profiles or types (qualitative differentiation of institutions) and course profiles (those that give access to the so-called imperial professions) on the trajectories of students and graduates and on the maintenance of inequalities are analyzed. We study the transition of graduates from higher education to the labor market, considering the moderating or accentuating effects of the institutional model on the advantages of social origin, and the evidence found in engineering courses on the imperial professions’ strategies of closure. We seek to understand how much the expansion of Brazilian higher education has widened its entry and how much it has organized itself to offer (or not) opportunities so that the adiscribed characteristics of the individual (gender and race, but mainly, social class) are not the determining elements of their social destiny.

KEYWORDS: Higher Education. Institutional  Differentiation. Inequalities. Social Cleavages. Social Origin.

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Published

2022-12-28

How to Cite

Barbosa, M. L. (2022). INSTITUTIONAL DIFFERENTIATION IN BRAZILIAN HIGHER EDUCATION AND DIMENSIONS OF INEQUALITY. Cadernos De Estudos Sociais, 37(2). https://doi.org/10.33148/CES(2169)

Issue

Vol. 37 No. 2 (2022): Desigualdades étnico-raciais, de gênero e regionais na educação

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Dossiê: Desigualdades étnico-raciais, de gênero e regionais na educação

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