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Paradoxes of Privilege
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Shamus Rahman Khan, a young scholar who writes with a distinctive voice, has produced a study that skillfully brings together these two levels of analysis as mentioned in this paper, which is called Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School.Abstract:
Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School, by Shamus Rahman Khan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. 232 pp. $29.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780691145280. A great deal has been written about the micro-macro link and its role in sociology (Alexander et al., eds. 1991; Huber 1987). The discipline has produced admirable stud ies that focus either on micro-level phenom ena or developments at the macro level. Even more challenging, however, is to estab lish convincing connections between what happens on the ground and the big picture. Shamus Rahman Khan, a young scholar who writes with a distinctive voice, has pro duced a study that skillfully brings together these two levels of analysis. Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School opens with an account of Khan's family background, a signal to the reader that this is no ordinary scholarly book. Born into a family with a father from rural Pakistan and a mother fromread more
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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