Abstract
The “social reproduction”, posited by Bourdieu in the 1960s showed that low income class had access to less prestigious opportunities in the school system. Since then, in Brazil, the system has undergone a major qualitative and quantitative expansion that generated hierarchies, according to social classes, even between forms of the same course degree. In this paper we present a case that diverge from this tradition: a Chemistry undergraduate degree offered in the modalities of teacher and professional education. From quantitative, qualitative and longitudinal data we observed that undergraduate teacher education students come from lower social classes, but conclude the course with the same opportunities for professional and academic integration that professional education, altering its likely social destination.
Keywords
higher education; sociology of education; Pierre Bourdieu; teacher education