Autori
Pavolini, Emmanuele
Argentin, Gianluca

Titolo
How Schools Directly Contribute to the Reproduction of Social Inequalities. Evidence of Tertiary Effects, Taken from Italian Research
Periodico
Politiche Sociali
Anno: 2020 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 149 - Pagina finale: 176

The article focuses on the fact that several micro-mechanisms operating in education maycontribute to the reproduction of class-based social inequalities in education systems. Thesemechanisms are primarily the consequences of actions taken by school leaders, teachersand families within school organisations. We intend using the notion of «tertiary effects»in order to investigate how these actions generate inequalities, and how they interplaywith the more widely studied primary and, especially, secondary effects. Reviewing Italianstudies in this field, we argue that education systems contribute to the reproduction ofinequalities, and not only through their macro-institutional settings. Indeed, the existingevidence, reviewed in this article, shows that even the Italian school system, while seeminglyuniform, being largely publicly funded and governed according to bureaucratic rules, isinstead highly segregated and much less neutral than one would expect. We argue thatstudying the mechanisms underneath tertiary effects is promising both for the developmentof sociological theory, and for designing effective policies aimed at reducing socialinequalities in education.



SICI: 2284-2098(2020)1<149:HSDCTT>2.0.ZU;2-P
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