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MORAIS, José Carlos. School and social change: recent graduates in computer science at institutions of higher education located in the metropolitan area of Porto. Sociologia [online]. 2012, vol.23, pp.127-147. ISSN 0872-3419.

This article is based on a Ph.D. in sociology research conducted at FLUP. It seeks to capture the continuities and transformations between levels of socialization and structure of habitus in a specific group of the Portuguese population: new graduates in computing in higher education institutions located in the metropolitan area of Porto. The data that are presented here refer to intergenerational courses in terms of class, putting the school in the heart of the problem of change and social reproduction. The aim of the research that underpins this article focused on the uptake of practices and representations of this particular group with the aim of concluding on the dynamics that characterize Portugal, a country in transition to a network society.

Palabras clave : Higher education; Social Change; New Information Technologies and Communication.

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