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OLIVEIRA, Luiz Fernando de  e  PORTES, Écio Antônio. Rise and distancing in the social, school and professional career paths of a young man from the lower classes. Perspectiva [online]. 2014, vol.32, n.3, pp.1145-1164. ISSN 0102-5473.  https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2014v32n3p1145.

The present text analyses the professional, social and school trajectory of a social actor who came from the lower classes and who graduated at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in a very prestigious course in Electrical Engineering, took a Masters' degree in the same area and was employed as an engineer in an energy plant in Minas Gerais. The ideas developed in this work relate mainly to the cultural, social and economical changes which took place in the actor's life from the year 1996, when he entered the University, to the year 2012, taking into consideration the role of the school and of education, broadly speaking, in this "successful" trajectory. As data collection technique, in-depth interviews were conducted in two different periods in order to cover the schooling and the professional life of the researched actor. There result of the analysis points to two central hypotheses: 1) the school formation and afterwards the insertion into the work market in a highly prestigious profession were not sufficient to guarantee, up to now, the incorporation of the elite culture by the actor studied here, although he has quickly incorporated the professional culture demanded by his status, something that was highly functional in his work; and 2) the social, cultural and economical ascension of the actor seems to have distanced him from his original environment, such distancing having brought with it a certain amount of suffering.

Palavras-chave : Sociology of Education; Schooling; Social Rise.

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