Modo de reproducción escolar en las clases sociales cordobesas. Un análisis desde las transmisiones intergeneracionales

The article seeks to understand the way in which families belonging to different social classes in Cordoba make school investment efforts to improve the positions of their descendants. The text is based on quantitative and qualitative empirical materials. Initially, the positions in society in the different social classes in Cordoba (Argentina) were rebuilt using statistical methods. In a second stage, in-depth interviews were conducted with the heads of households from various social classes. From the interviewees’ current position, we accessed the modalities assumed by their mode of school reproduction from different social classes in the intergenerational trajectories. Downward mobility or maintenance trajectories in the position of class were drawn. This led to connect the moments within the families and their life cycles with the different historical moments of the social structure and, especially, the education system.