School market and the democratization of education: one step forward, two steps back. The case of the Canadian Province of Quebec

IF 1 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

International Review of Sociology-Revue Internationale de Sociologie Pub Date : 2021-12-16 DOI:10.1080/03906701.2021.2015933

Pierre-Canisius Kamanzi

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to show that since the 1980s, educational inequalities in Quebec have gradually been reconfigured through the school market. The results obtained from a sample (N = 24,085) of a cohort of students who entered their first year of secondary school in 2002–2003 and who were observed for up to ten years (2012–2013) show that the influence of social origin on educational inequalities operates in large part via mediation of the type of institution attended. The results indicate that enrollment in selective schools, whether public or private, is closely associated to the social characteristics of the students: socioeconomic and ethnocultural origin, gender and mother tongue. In addition, there is a strong association between attendance at these same institutions, access to higher education and graduation. We conclude that the persistence of the reproduction of social inequalities in education is the result of the interactive and combined effects of social power relations related to class and ethnicity, and the current organization of public policies in education. This reveals a paradox as school markets have been promoted by public policies in the name of strengthening democratization and improving the quality of education.

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学校市场化与教育民主化:前进一步，后退两步。加拿大魁北克省的案例

本文的目的是表明，自20世纪80年代以来，魁北克省的教育不平等已逐渐通过学校市场重新配置。从2002-2003年进入中学一年级的一组学生的样本(N = 24,085)中获得的结果表明，社会出身对教育不平等的影响在很大程度上是通过所就读机构类型的中介作用产生的。结果表明，无论是公立学校还是私立学校，名牌学校的入学率与学生的社会经济和民族文化出身、性别和母语密切相关。此外，在这些院校就读、接受高等教育和毕业之间存在着密切的联系。我们的结论是，教育中社会不平等的持续再现是与阶级和种族相关的社会权力关系以及当前教育公共政策组织相互作用和综合影响的结果。这暴露了以加强民主化和提高教育质量为名，通过公共政策推动学校市场的悖论。

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期刊介绍： International Review of Sociology is the oldest journal in the field of sociology, founded in 1893 by Ren Worms. Now the property of Rome University, its direction has been entrusted to the Faculty of Statistics. This choice is a deliberate one and falls into line with the traditional orientation of the journal as well as of the Institut International de Sociologie. The latter was the world"s first international academic organisation of sociology which started as an association of contributors to International Review of Sociology. Entrusting the journal to the Faculty of Statistics reinforces the view that sociology is not conceived apart from economics, history, demography, anthropology and social psychology.