Contributions of the Concept of Education in Luhmann and its Relationship with the Study of Exclusion

Abstract

The sociology of education is one of the oldest specialties of sociological theory. Derived from the annotations of the classics, there is a consensus between functionalist theories, critical theories and human capital theories in order to consider education as central to the maintenance of inequality in society. This article reports a description of the education from the theory of social systems as a epistemological alternative, noting the potential of making an analytical difference between coding and programming for the study of exclusion.