Serdecznie zapraszamy na wykład gościnny prof. João Teixeira Lopesa - wiceprewodniczącego Portugalskiego Towarzystwa Socjologicznego:

"The diverse pathways of higher education students: A sociological analysis on inequality, context and agency" 

wykład otwarty w ramach Kongresu Młodej Socjologii;

czwartek, 8 maja, godz. 18.00, sala 79

Abstrakt wykładu:

One of the consequences of the extension of access to higher education in Portugal, as in other countries, has been the diversification of students' social background. This process has not led to the elimination of social inequalities in students' access to and success in higher education, but those inequalities have not remained the same. In fact, there have been some highly significant and complex changes in this area. To study them, we carried out a comprehensive sociological investigation that covers the entire Portuguese higher education system—including universities and polytechnics—covering different areas of knowledge in different regions. The theoretic model included three levels of analysis: structural, institutional and biographical. The research design involved quantitative and qualitative methodological procedures. At the biographical level, in-depth interviews were conducted with 170 students. From these interviews we drew ‘sociological portraits' and built analytical types both of these students' structural and institutional positioning in their educational path and of how they actively shaped diverse types of personal trajectories. The identification of these types of student paths may help advance knowledge in this field, shedding considerably more light than the usual administrative categories of ‘success', ‘failure' and ‘dropout'.

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João Teixeira Lopes
Head of sociology department and sociology teacher at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto (1992). Master of Social Sciences Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (1995) with the Dissertation Blues Schools - A Study on Student's Cultural Practices in Urban Areas (Porto, Issues Afrontamento, 1997). Ph.D. in Sociology of Culture and Education (1999) with Essay The City and Culture - A Study on Urban Cultural Practices (Porto, Afrontamento, 2000). Effective member of the Observatory of Cultural Activities between 1996 and 1998 and his current collaborator. Joined the team coordinator of the National Report on Cultural Policy (1985-95) presented in 1998 at the Council of Europe (Lisbon, Portugal on Cultural Policies,Observatory of Cultural Activities, 1998). Programmer when Porto was the European Capital of Culture 2001 while responsible for the involvement of the population and a member of the original team that drafted the application submitted to the Council of Europe. Represented the Left Bloc as a deputy to the National Assembly (2002-2006). Scientific Coordinator of the Institute of Sociology Faculty between 2002 and February 2010. Journal of Sociology Director between 2009 and February 2013. Has published 14 books (alone or in co-authorship) in the fields of sociology of culture, city, youth and education, as well as museology and territorial studies. Vice-President of the Portuguese Sociological Association.