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Popular classes’ University students. Access and permanence in higher education. Student life. University quotidian. Academic socialization
More popular classes’ students progressively occupy the universities places, a recent fact in the higher education institutions in Brazil. Studies about the access to universities diplomas, especially in the sociology of education perspective, point that is crucial understand not just the admission and permanence of those students arise from disadvantaged social groups, but as well know the reality of their academic living. Thus, this study have as principal aim understanding the permanence condition of the grassroots student in the University from the socialization processes. The Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte was the research locus with the participation of popular classes’ students of the Humanities courses (Social Sciences and Law), Biomedical courses (Biological Sciences and Dentistry) and Technological courses (Mathematics and Civil Engineering). In the first investigation step, includes an ethnography approach with descriptive registers of the observational field, it applied a questionnaire in the third period (semester) classes of the course. In a second moment, it realized semi structured interviews with six representatives, one student of which delimited course. From the subjects speech it defined four analytical categories: a) Formative trajectories: academic and familial; b) Academic paths: tensioned and feasible; c) University socialization: formal and cordial; e, d) Professional prospective: continue and (dis)continue. From those categories it resulted an interpretation of sociological and educational significances attributed by the students, in despite of their selves and theirs family disadvantaged economic conditions, crucial point in this study. However, considering the numerous difficulties for the permanence, independently of the social origins, all the students have to (re)invent their selves to remain in theirs courses. In the scenario of economic barriers and educational obstacles, the bonds of friendship, partnerships groups, squares sociability, bars, canteens and the pairs help, are seeing as essentials to the student survive, phenomena due to these social and affective relationships it named as cordial academic socialization.