Shamus Rahman Khan, Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School
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This article is published in Canadian Journal of Sociology.The article was published on 2011-06-08 and is currently open access. It has received 183 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Elite & Privilege (social inequality).read more
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