Bourdieu, Educational Capital and Social Mobility: The Perception of African Students Course of Public Administration of the UNILAB
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https://doi.org/10.21118/apgs.v6i4.4578Abstract
This paper analyzes the expectations of social mobility of young African students who come to study public administration in Brazil. Result of the expansion of academic exchange between countries of the South, this example includes a widespread practice of social transformation through education. Bourdieu’s Theory of social distinction argues that social position depends on the family and not the educational capital. From a qualitative study, using interviews and discourse analysis, we investigated the expectations of social mobility of respondents. The results show an expectation of social mobility and a search for a social transformation. A differentiated condition for African countries may oppose the theory of Bourdieu, focused on French society, and endowed with a degree of inflation, unlike countries such students.
Key-Words: Educational capital, Bourdieu, Academic interchange, African students.
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