La apuesta universitaria en los jóvenes de clases populares. Entre la promoción social y la falta de horizonte

Abstract

Our contribution to this debate is based on the discursive analysis of several interviews made to working-class students during the 2015-2016 academic year. We specially focused it on the ways in which these students had faced the tuition fees and grants reforms that have been taking place since 2012. Nevertheless "Bolonia Plan" has also emerged in these discourses as an important institutional change. We have clearly identified an increase in value of University due to the labour market crisis. However, these reforms have materially and academically configured a more constricted context. In the discourses, we also contrast how the option of coming to University is now perceived as a less attractive one because of being more insecure, with new and more uncertain obstacles and whose profitability is not either assured.