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Carlos
@cfpalam.bsky.social
Inequality, Class, Higher Education & Social Mobility / Desigualdad, Clase, Educacion Superior y Movilidad Social
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Getting a degree often feels necessary to gain recognition. However, higher education decisions are not straightforward. They involve moral and emotional concerns and are strongly influenced by social class. These issues are explored in the context of Chile. 👇

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“It’s so discriminatory. If you’re not at university, you are a nobody in society.” – Daniel, secondary school student, Chile

Carlos Palma-Amestoy on the moral imperatives that underpin a student’s decision to enter higher education.

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What can the ideas of Axel Honneth and Pierre Bourdieu tell us about higher education in Chile?

Carlos Palma-Amestoy @cfpalam.bsky.social explores the struggle for recognition, individual responsibility and how education has become a “normative imperative”.

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July 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Formación de aspiraciones y transición a la educación superior en Chile: Prácticas y estrategias institucionales | En Perfiles Educativos Número Especial: Educación superior y desigualdad social en América Latina

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Formación de aspiraciones y transición a la educación superior en Chile: Prácticas y estrategias institucionales | Perfiles Educativos
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August 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Great podcast, highly recommended!
The Culture and Inequality Podcast is back!

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Culture & Inequality Podcast
How does culture feed into inequality? And the other way around? In Culture and Inequality, cultural sociologists from universities across the world explore these topics in-depth from various perspect...
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July 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Getting a degree often feels necessary to gain recognition. However, higher education decisions are not straightforward. They involve moral and emotional concerns and are strongly influenced by social class. These issues are explored in the context of Chile. 👇

@thesociologicalreview.org
“It’s so discriminatory. If you’re not at university, you are a nobody in society.” – Daniel, secondary school student, Chile

Carlos Palma-Amestoy on the moral imperatives that underpin a student’s decision to enter higher education.

#OnlineFirst in the journal buff.ly/meRukDb
July 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Recently published: "Higher education and social recognition: On the moral dimension of pupils' aspirations and choices in Chile".

‪Thanks to @thesociologicalreview.org

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Higher education and social recognition: On the moral dimension of pupils’ aspirations and choices in Chile - Carlos Palma-Amestoy, 2025
This article examines the processes that shape pupils’ higher education (HE) aspirations and choices. At the theoretical level, I argue that while Pierre Bourdi...
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July 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
What It Takes to Get Ahead. Those who get ahead through education never rise alone – despite what many claim. This article draws on recent research to explore the trajectories of individuals from middle and lower-class backgrounds in Chile.

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What It Takes to Get Ahead
Those who get ahead through education never rise alone—despite what many claim. This article draws on recent research to explore the trajectories of individuals from middle and lower-class backgrou…
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July 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Class analysis and social recognition. Some tentative reflections.

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Class Analysis And Social Recognition: Some Tentative Reflections
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June 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
¿Cómo lo hacen los que salen adelante? Al examinar las trayectorias de personas de sectores medios y bajos que logran ascender a través de la educación, el artículo destaca que nadie sube solo, como se pregona.

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Cómo lo hacen los que salen adelante
Al examinar las trayectorias de personas de sectores medios y bajos que logran ascender a través de la educación, el artículo destaca que nadie sube solo, como se pregona.
terceradosis.cl
June 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
International Conference: The Future of Social Mobility. Santiago, Chile. 3-4 December 2025

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The Future of Social Mobility
This conference will examine the contemporary challenges of social mobility, with a particular focus on both persistent and emerging barriers.
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June 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Very good book. Theoretically and empirically is great. It presents a clear way of intersecting race and class, and applies it to the global and elite higher education. By @kalwantbhopal.bsky.social & @martinmyers.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Great interview and the book looks very interesting: 'Bourdieu and Sayad against empire. Forging sociology in anticolonial struggle'

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Amín Pérez, "Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle" (Polity Press, 2023) - New Books Network
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November 16, 2024 at 4:08 AM