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Social Inequality in French Education : Extent and Complexity of the Issues

Marie Duru-bellat

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[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/SociologyInequality[SHS.SOCIO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology[SHS.EDU]Humanities and Social Sciences/Educationmedia_common.quotation_subjectReproduction (economics)[SHS.EDU] Humanities and Social Sciences/EducationSocial Inequality[ SHS.EDU ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Education[ SHS.SOCIO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/SociologyEducation systemsEducational inequalitySocial mobilityOutcome (game theory)DemocracyGeneral theoryPolitical scienceSocial inequalityFranceSocial sciencemedia_common

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Educational inequality is a matter of acute concern in France as it is in most democratic countries. We rely on schools to assess the skill levels of all students and on this basis to guide them into employment in a way which is impartial and independent of their social origins. However, since the end of the 1960s, French sociology has very cogently denounced sharp and persistent inequalities both in access to different levels of education and in academic success understood more narrowly. This critique took the form of a general theory, presented by Bourdieu and Passeron in 1970 in Reproduction, which made social inequalities a necessary outcome of the way in which school systems worked.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2007-01-01
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00401292