Distinção e classe social no acesso ao ensino superior brasileiro

The  objective  of  this  article  is  to  stratify  and  configure  the  social  classes  and  its  distinctions  in  the  access  to  higher  education.  The  research  uses  statistical  techniques  to  investigate  these  relations by the Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio (Enem) data. Based on cultural, economic, social and linguistic capital, we identified an upper class which has access to all of the courses. a heterogeneous intermediate class, which a privileged fraction has access to 35.8% of the courses, but not the prestigious ones; and a lower class, whose low performance allows access to less than 5%  of  the  courses.  Thereby,  Enem  acts  as  an  element  that  reproduces  the  differentiation  and  hierarchization, by maintaining higher education as a social distinction.