Los medios de comunicación y su impacto en la concepción de educación superior como dispositivo de movilidad social

Abstract

The function of promoting social mobility on the part of higher education imposed from the national collective imagination, and the role of the media in the conceptual change that this function has undergone, must begin with its origin: the progressive withdrawal of the State from the various areas of concern of civil society, a process that has given way to institutions that could assume a fundamental role in the provision of meanings and meanings, such as in the distribution of values, be weakened by the influx of new forces that rather than cohesion, disperse and more than re-signify, they empty the socio-cultural environment to which the young person is confronted. The old demands of sectors that saw in education a system of social mobility, have been frustrated, because secondary education no longer fulfills the mission assigned to it by the middle and poor sectors, while, tertiary education remains, therefore , segmented into diverse niches of divergent quality that are accessible to the more affluent, for those who may become subjects of bank credit, or for those who, without economic power, have escalated through an exclusionary and poorly regulated meritocracy.