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RODRIGO, Luis Miguel  y  SANCHEZ, Aurora. Social determinants of school career in chilean college students: The case of the Catholic University of the North. Polis [online]. 2015, vol.14, n.42, pp.455-489. ISSN 0718-6568.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-65682015000300021.

There is a lack of sociological work on Chilean higher education, especially works framed in theories of social reproduction. This article examines, from Bourdieu’s theory, the school careers of students from the Catholic University of the North (Chile). Four vital moments of this trajectory are identified, i) the choice of school, II) the results in the entrance examination to college, III) the choice of career and VI) the success in it. These moments are analyzed using classification and regression trees, and coefficients of localization, with information for the period 2002-2007. The results show how the school system transforms the social origins of students in individual attributes, and how the effect of these attributes persist after entering college.

Palabras clave : school career; social origin; social reproduction; rational choice.

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