ABSTRACT
The new sociology of education, which relies on critical assumptions, tends to sketch reality through macro social and political power relations. These efforts strive to track the ways the social-cultural hegemony develops and establishes binary social structures, which are subordinated to depoliticised and naturalised systems and mechanisms of stratification and control. The national culture/identity was one of the main components that determined the Kedma school's life. Nationality was one of the most important dimensions/aspects of the disadvantage identity, and thus the dimension/aspect that actively constructed the relationship between disadvantagedness and educational success. Neo-liberalism is offering different ethnic groups various modes of assimilation that will enable the nation to "digest" them within the national borders. The New Right movement is offering them the option of "cultural fundamentalism," which emphasises the authentic characters of different ethnic groups and marginalises them on the basis of these differences.
