Where are those who want to get ahead? Students of private universities and the pursuit of success: The case of the Universidad César Vallejo (Peru)

• Autor: Seclén Neyra, Eloy
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2014
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/10969
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/debatesensociologia/article/view/10969
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: middle class; segmentation; success; performativity; aspirations; clases medias; segmentación; éxito; performatividad; aspiraciones

This paper presents the phenomenon of the private universities that have emerged in our country during the nineties. This increase of alternatives to access to higher education has generated a sense of significant progress in terms of social mobility opportunities for middle class youth. However, we point that this quantitative increase has caused rather a very strong professional market segmentation. That is, it has not reduced educational gaps; on the contrary, it has probably increased them. In search of items that hold this idea, we propose to develop a profile of the young people attending the Private University César Vallejo, based on a comparison of some aspects about supply and demand.