Introduction to the Special Section. At the Margins: Challenges for Sociologists of Education in Southern Europe

Facing old questions linked to the process of democratisation of the educational system and to the persistence of inequalities in education, this Special Issue aims at focusing both on the margins of Europe and on the groups at risk of marginalisation from education, posing these topics at the centre of Sociology of Education. The Introduction to the Special Issue point out the spacial position (at the margins of Europe), the social condition of disadvantaged groups in the educational field, and the “peripheral” role of Sociologists of Education in this debate, underlying difficulties and challenges for our discipline (and social sciences in general)
in Southern contexts.