Andrew Webb

I am associate professor of Sociology, at the Instituto de Sociología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and associate researcher for the Centre of Indigenous and Intercultural Research (CIIR) and Millennium Nucleus for the Study of Life Course and Vulnerability (MLIV). I completed my PhD at Cambridge University, UK, in 2010. My research interests are centered in the sociology of Education, with a specific focus on experiences of exclusion and inequalities across educational trajectories. I mostly work from Bourdieusian perspectives on social and cultural capital, incorporating what I see to be complementary perspectives from critical race theory and also Eliasian figurational sociology.

To date, my research has covered a number of issues relating to contexts of ethnic diversity, school segregation, teacher expectations, friendship groups, discrimination, school climate, interculturality/multiculturalism and youth identities using qualitative methodologies in primary, secondary and tertiary education settings