Unequal Inclusion: The Production of Social Differences in Education Systems

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Autor(a) principal: Emmerich, Marcus
Data de Publicação: 2021
Outros Autores: Hormel, Ulrike
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v9i3.4322
Resumo: The article raises the question of whether and how education systems produce social differences internally rather than reproducing pre‐existing “external” inequalities. Linking Niklas Luhmann’s theory of inclusion/exclusion with Charles Tilly’s theory of categorical inequalities, and based on empirical data from various qualitative studies, the article identifies an “observation regime” epistemically constituting the social classification of students and legitimising organisational closure mechanisms in the school system. As an alternative to the “reproduction paradigm,” a research approach guided by differentiation theory is proposed that takes into account that educational inequality operationally arises on the “inside” of the educational system and is caused by unequal inclusion processes.
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title Unequal Inclusion: The Production of Social Differences in Education Systems
spellingShingle Unequal Inclusion: The Production of Social Differences in Education Systems
Emmerich, Marcus
educational inequality; exclusion; inclusion; observation regime; social closure
title_short Unequal Inclusion: The Production of Social Differences in Education Systems
title_full Unequal Inclusion: The Production of Social Differences in Education Systems
title_fullStr Unequal Inclusion: The Production of Social Differences in Education Systems
title_full_unstemmed Unequal Inclusion: The Production of Social Differences in Education Systems
title_sort Unequal Inclusion: The Production of Social Differences in Education Systems
author Emmerich, Marcus
author_facet Emmerich, Marcus
Hormel, Ulrike
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Hormel, Ulrike
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv educational inequality; exclusion; inclusion; observation regime; social closure
topic educational inequality; exclusion; inclusion; observation regime; social closure
description The article raises the question of whether and how education systems produce social differences internally rather than reproducing pre‐existing “external” inequalities. Linking Niklas Luhmann’s theory of inclusion/exclusion with Charles Tilly’s theory of categorical inequalities, and based on empirical data from various qualitative studies, the article identifies an “observation regime” epistemically constituting the social classification of students and legitimising organisational closure mechanisms in the school system. As an alternative to the “reproduction paradigm,” a research approach guided by differentiation theory is proposed that takes into account that educational inequality operationally arises on the “inside” of the educational system and is caused by unequal inclusion processes.
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