Expanding equally? social origins and educational destinations in Brazils Higher Education system

• Grant number: 22/03165-0
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Initial Project
• Start date: March 01, 2023
• End date: February 28, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Principal Investigator: Murillo Marschner Alves de Brito
• Grantee: Murillo Marschner Alves de Brito
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 24/06003-6 - Horizontal stratification on the access to USP: a comparative study on FFLCH/USP, BP.IC; 24/06096-4 - Pathways through training routes: a study on the effects of high school reforms on the access to higher education, BP.MS; 23/06996-2 - Horizontal stratification and the access to USP: a comparative study on FFLCH, BP.IC

Abstract

There has been an unprecedent expansion in Brazil's higher education in the past 30 years, alongside a comprehensive set of public policies intended to diminish inequalities in access based on ascribed characteristics of students, mainly based on their social origins. But even with that significant expansion, inequalities in educational opportunities have increased in Brazil between 2000 and 2010. Inspired by a growing literature on educational stratification studies, a framework to conceptualize the inequality of educational opportunities problem as a problem of the relationship between social origins and educational destinations, we propose an empirical assessment using a quasi-experimental research design for the study of the case of Universidade de São Paulo (USP). The main objective is to evaluate the effects of recent public affirmative policies (INCLUSP e SISU) and analyse their capacities to transform previously observed patterns of association between social origins and educational destinations in public higher education access. (AU)