Sociologia de um grupo familiar administrador de uma escola de elite em São Luis do Maranhão

Abstract

This paper proposes an analysis of the social trajectory and strategies of social reproduction of a family group that founded a “elite school” in São Luis. The case presented is an example of how the socialization and schooling processes of certain social agents that make up a school’s governing family are decisive for the type of strategy to distinguish the latter in a stratified school and urban space, in which the way the school it presents itself and the values it defends imply, in attracting or not, certain families for its enterprise. The empirical data were constructed through interviews and reading of documents written by the interviewed agent, one of the owners of the analyzed school institution. The speech of school leaders reveals a relationship with the speeches of the “neoliberal school” that has emerged in Brazil and in the world, since the 1970s.