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Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School
2010·248 pages
An ethnographic study of elite education at St. Paul's School, exploring privilege and inequality in shaping a new adolescent elite.
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An ethnographic study of elite education at St. Paul's School, exploring privilege and inequality in shaping a new adolescent elite.
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As one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, has long been the exclusive domain of America's wealthiest sons. But times have changed. Today, a new elite of boys and girls is being molded at St. Paul's, one that reflects the hope of openness but also the persistence of inequality. In Privilege , Shamus Khan returns to his alma mater to provide an inside look at an institution that has been the private realm of the elite for the past 150 y...
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will contain mild spoilers
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Passing references to the school’s Episcopal chapel and traditions
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Central analysis of privilege, inequality, merit, and elite reproduction
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Themes of systemic inequality and its social consequences
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