In her paper Magdalena Fellner argues that university admission has always been a politically relevant and controversial issue due to the occupation of socially influential positions. While hierarchical social concepts tend to lead to a static concept of study ability, egalitarian concepts, on the other hand, give rise to a dynamic concept of study ability. The study ability debate can therefore not be separated from social conceptions of order.

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