Permanence strategies and instruments of university reproduction in Córdoba, Argentina, 2017

Abstract

The sustained increase in university enrollment in Córdoba, Argentina, includes a growing proportion of students who go through the difficult situation of procrastination in their studies. To deal with this situation, the students establish strategies of permanence in higher education, which we have systematized as persistence strategies and substitution strategies. Assuming a Bourdieusian perspective, we reconstruct the space of university degrees in Córdoba from the classification of undergraduate and graduate degrees (ISCED 5 and 6), by means of a multidimensional technique of data analysis and an ascending hierarchical classification methodology. The typology of degrees obtained allows us to reconstruct the state of university supply which, as an instrument of available reproduction, constitutes the space of possibilities and limitations for permanence strategies, especially those of substitution, in higher education.