EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY IN SPANISH EDUCATION SOCIOLOGY JOURNALS, 2008-2018

To better know the field of Sociology of Spanish Education, specifically its current state in relation to the study of Educational Inequality, this article analyzes, in a relational and qualitative way, publications of three Spanish scientific journals specializing in the discipline: Journal of the Association of Sociology of Education, International Journal in Sociology of Education and Tern pore Magazine. By linking analyses of the selected articles and each magazine to one another, at least two disputes have been identified: 1) an internal one about the assumptions and methods used to study Educational Inequality, and 2) an external one on how the discipline challenges socially legitimate common sense. Despite discrepancies in the concepts of educational research, there are elements among the journals that, when integrated, nourish the internal debates of the discipline and consolidate its positioning against social discourses full of stigmas and prejudices.