摘要：The entry and stay of students in college is a decision that is influenced by familiar, educational, cultural, social, economic, political, institutional, academic, and pedagogical aspects. In this sense, the possibility of continuing studying arises not as linear or unicausal process but as derived from the way the social, institutional, educational and didactic dimensions intersect and interplay (Mastache, A. et al., 2005). If we look primarily to socioeconomic factors there are approaches that relate the material living conditions with socio-cultural conditions. The first are observed through income, type of housing, family composition, parents’ occupational categories. The latter, through the parents’ educational level, education's perceived value, language patterns, study and leisure habits, access to cultural goods. All these factors, combined with institutional variables, set the most frequent context of dropout rates.
