Sociological research has shown that marketized educational systems favour middle-class families’ self-segregation strategies through school choice and, consequently, the reproduction of their social advantage over poorer families. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of capitals, habitus and strategy, we analyse quantitative and ethnographic data on parents’ school choice from Chile to introduce nuances to this argument, evincing more extended and complex mechanisms of self-segregation in the Chilean marketized educational system. We found that not only middle-class parents but also parents from different socioeconomic groups displayed self-segregating school choice strategies. We also found that these strategies were performed both vertically (in relation to other social classes) and horizontally (in relation to other groups within the same social class). These findings unwrap a possible stronger effect of the Chilean school choice system over segregation.

社会学研究表明，市场化的教育体系有利于中产阶级家庭通过学校选择的自我隔离策略，从而复制他们对贫困家庭的社会优势。借鉴皮埃尔·布迪厄的资本、惯习和战略概念，我们分析了智利家长选择学校的定量和人种学数据，以引入这一论点的细微差别，证明智利市场化教育体系中更广泛和复杂的自我隔离机制。我们发现，不仅是中产阶级父母，而且来自不同社会经济群体的父母都表现出自我隔离的择校策略。我们还发现，这些策略在纵向（相对于其他社会阶层）和横向（相对于同一社会阶层中的其他群体）执行。这些发现揭示了智利学校选择制度对种族隔离可能产生的更强影响。