Processes of Exclusive Inclusion Present in Private Higher Education

Abstract

The local and global pressures for new forms of social organization
have focused on public policies aimed at granting access to higher education
to a hitherto underprivileged segment of the population. This article
deals with the effects that these inclusion processes can produce. The data
collected through an ethnographic study in a private institution of higher
education (IHE) were analyzed in the light of the concepts of identity and
difference as produced by the field of Cultural Studies. The text proposes
that the inclusion processes reinforce and validate only the identities that
fit the imposition of consumption and performance characteristic of Neoliberalism,
and signal this difference through subtle processes of exclusion
of those who do not conform to the prevailing social logic.