Hierarchical processes in university secondary schools in Argentina
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Abstract
This paper analyzes processes of legitimization of socio-educational inequalities in secondary schools fo-
cusing 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 analy-
sis, 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 de-
pendent 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.
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