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

该项目审查大学的选择是否有助于高等教育领域的纵向差异。主要的假设是指由潜在的学生谁在选择一所大学的行为主观区分其性能的共识声誉系统的感知。这种垂直分化的制度化影响了高等教育中精英的形成和大学社会构成的隔离，因此垂直分化对现代社会的教育体系和社会结构具有重大影响。在方法上，比较德国和法国之间的纵向二级数据的基础上。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纵向不同大学选择的影响以及机构的社会同质性程度的变化。在德国，该项目与Deutsche Zentrum fuer Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung（DZHW）合作，该中心将为该研究项目提供所有波的研究成果。该数据集将在三年项目结束后作为科学使用文件提供。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。在法国，将利用国家学生生活观察站学生生活状况调查的二手数据进行分析。这两个国际数据集在其设计和统一的调查表中相互比较非常好，并允许在理论模型中操作所有计划变量。该项目的预期成果将包括：a）在两个不同的高等教育体系中，对精英形成的程度进行定量准确的测定; B）在理论上和经验上对垂直差异支持的选拔过程的程度进行重要的重建; c）为教育研究提供新的纵向数据集。由于大学的选择及其制度和社会结构后果很少被定量研究，拟议的项目将能够填补重大的研究空白，并为“精英与大学”这一主题开辟新的视角。这尤其包括这样一个问题，即尽管出发点不同，各国是否以及如何正在缩小它们在高等教育领域的纵向差别和纵向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.