Determinantes do sucesso educacional: uma análise do perfil dos indivíduos em condições sociais de desvantagem que atingiram o sucesso escolar

Abstract

This study investigates the possible determinants of educational success, considering as such the student’s incoming third year of high school at the appropriate age, without having been disapproved and without having left school during his career. Observe students in disadvantaged social conditions that successfully undertook their academic trajectory. Investigates the profile and characteristics of the family background of non-white students, mothers with less education and lower socioeconomic level that successfully reached the third year of high school. To this end, some sociological arguments about education in modern society are reviewed, punctuating partially their purposes, roles and implications that provide the problems of this research. It is part of the classic authors from sociology Marx, Weber and Durkheim, toward theories of human capital, reproductivist theories, neo-weberian theories and empirical research on education inequalities conducted in Brazil. Followed by theoretical review of the expansion of public policies for education in Brazil and its relevance to the achievement of successful academic career. In the empirical part, the data used are from Sistema de Avaliação da Educação Básica (SAEB) 2011. The results show the profile and characteristics of the family background of students in disadvantaged social conditions that hit school success.