School choice and the selection of families: upper middle class reproduction in Santiago de Chile
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https://doi.org/10.3989/ris.2019.77.1.17.310Keywords:
Educational inequalities, Middle class, School choice model, Social reproduction, Social stratificationAbstract
School choice has been identified as a key moment in the process of social reproduction of the upper middle class. In Chile, over the last decades, the educational model has depended for the most part in the last decades on what is understood as parent’s school choice of school. This model of public policy has coexisted with the selection that educational institutions perform in the admission process. In this article, we present some novel findings that indicate that overcoming barriers to entry to schools, mainly subsidized and private schools, has had a particularly strong relationship with the availability that families have of economic capital, along with their identification with Catholicism and their religious practices. In addition, social, cultural and educational capitals, together with social class, also show important differences.
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