The School Organization and its Educational Inequality Mechanisms

Abstract

In this chapter, I describe CS’s organizational operations with the aim of clarifying its contribution to the formation of the school’s socio-organizational student milieus (see Chapter 5). This analysis provides further information about how the school organization’s practices shaped the connection between students’ social differences and educational differences. In the first section (7.1), I describe the practices of the school organization in which students were treated differently based on their social and educational characteristics. Based on their functional similarities, I group these practices under three educational inequality mechanisms: sorting (section 7.1.1), unequal distribution of resources (section 7.1.2) and exclusion (section 7.1.3).