Choosing a University as Intensifier of Vertical Differentiation? Comparisons Between Germany and France

该项目调查了大学的选择是否有助于高等教育领域的垂直分化。主要假设是指潜在学生在选择大学的行为中主观地根据其表现来区分的共识声誉系统的感知。这种纵向分化的制度化影响了高等教育精英的形成和大学社会构成的隔离，因此，纵向分化对现代社会的教育制度和社会结构产生了极大的影响。在方法上，基于纵向次级数据对德国和法国进行了比较。从理论上讲，该项目采用了框架选择模型。纵向分析可以确定声誉和社会背景对被认为是纵向不同的大学选择的影响的变化，以及机构的社会同质性程度。在德国，该项目与德国研究中心(DZHW)合作，DZHW将为该研究项目提供研究的所有浪潮。该数据集将在三年项目结束后以科学使用档案的形式提供。通过使用和处理这一大型二级数据收集，该项目有助于改善德国社会科学数据的基础设施。就法国而言，将使用国家生活观察站(OVE)的条件调查的二手数据进行分析。在设计和统一调查表方面，这两套国际数据相互比较很好，使理论模型中的所有计划变量得以运作。该项目的预期结果将包括：a)从数量上准确确定两个不同高等教育系统中精英形成的程度；b)在理论上和经验上具有重要意义的重建由垂直差异支持的选拔过程的程度；c)为教育研究提供新的纵向数据集。由于很少对大学的选择及其体制和社会结构的后果进行定量研究，拟议的项目将能够填补重大的研究空白，并为“精英与大学”专题开辟新的视角。这尤其包括这样一个问题：尽管出发点不同，但各国是否以及如何缩小其在高等教育领域垂直分化和垂直封闭模式方面的差异。

The project examines whether the choice of university contributes to vertical differentiation in the field of higher education. The main hypothesis refers to the perception of consensual reputation systems by potential students who in the act of choosing a college subjectively differentiate by its performance. This institutionalization of vertical differentiation influences elite formation in higher education and a segregation of the social composition of colleges.Vertical differentiation is therefore highly influential on education systems and the social structure of modern societies. Methodologically, a comparison is made between Germany and France based on longitudinal secondary data. Theoretically, the project employs a frame-selection model. Longitudinal analyses allow the determination of changes in the influence of reputation and social background on the choice of universities considered vertically different and in the degree of social homogeneity of institutions. In Germany the project cooperates with the Deutsche Zentrum fuer Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung (DZHW), which will provide the research project with all waves of the Studienanfängerbefragung. This data set will be available as a Scientific Use File after the conclusion of the three year project. Through the use and processing of this large secondary data collection the project contributes to the improvement of the infrastructure of German social science data. For France, analysis will be conducted with secondary data from the surveys of the Conditions de vie des étudiants (CVE) of the Observatoire national de la Vie Étudiante (OVE). In their design and uniform questionnaires the two international data sets compare very well with each other and allow the operationalization of all planned variables in the theoretical model. The intended results of the project will consist of: a) a quantitatively accurate determination of the degree of elite formation in two different higher education systems; b) a theoretically and empirically important reconstruction of the extent of a selection process supported by vertical differentiation; c) a new longitudinal data set for educational research. As the choice of university and its institutional and socio-structural consequences have rarely been studied quantitatively, the proposed project will be able to fill significant research gaps and open new perspectives for the topic "elite and university". This includes in particular the question of whether and how countries despite diverse points of departure are reducing their differences in patterns of vertical differentiation and vertical closures in the field of higher education.