San Cristóbal de La Laguna, España
En este artículo se repasan brevemente los debates de sociología de la educación en torno a la explicación de la desigualdad de oportunidades educativas, con especial atención a la propuesta de Raymond Boudon y del individualismo metodológico. Este debate teórico es ilustrado con la diferencia entre rendimiento educativo (nivel de conocimientos) y logro educativo (título obtenido). Empleando datos de PISA y de la Encuesta de Población Activa se muestra que las diferencias por género y origen social son menores en rendimiento educativo que en logro educativo, tomando como indicador de logro educativo la obtención del título de Graduado en Educación Secundaria Obligatoria. Tras la constatación de este hecho se proponen hipótesis que podrían explicarlo.
In this article the debates on the sociology of education that deal with the inequality of educational opportunities are gone over briefly, with special attention given to Raymond Boudon´s suggestions on methodological individualism. This theoretical debate is illustrated with the difference between educational performance (level of knowledge) and educational achievement (titles obtained). Employing data from PISA and from the Survey of the Labour Force, it is shown that in educational performance, gender and social origin differences are less than in educational achievement, taking the graduation of Obligatory Secondary Education (Graduado en Educación Secundaria Obligatoria) as a marker of educational achievement. After the assessment of this fact, two families of hypothesis can be put forward to explain it. One refers to an artifact effect (problems of measuring different educational requirements). The other considers that there could be social processes that augment differences in educational performance when the time comes to transforming it to educational achievement. These processes could be due to factors that exist within the education system itself, such as the curriculum, or factors outside the system, such as the attraction the job market has for working class youngsters.
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