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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Complexities in Adjustment Patterns among the “Best and the Brightest”: Risk and Resilience in the Context of High Achieving Schools
TL;DR: Youth in high achieving schools (HAS) are at elevated risk for serious adjustment problems, including internalizing and externalizing symptoms and substance use, given unrelenting pressures to be "thriving" as mentioned in this paper.
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Resource or Obstacle?: Classed Reports of Student–Faculty Relations
TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between undergraduate students' class-based cultural capital and their facility in developing relationships with faculty and found that lower and middle-class students tended to inadvertently opt out of this key relational opportunity.
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Ethnicity, Class and Trusteeship at African-American and Mainstream Museums:
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Schools and Attitudes Toward Economic Equality.
TL;DR: Analysis of variation in the English schooling experiences using the British Cohort Study and British Panel Study shows that the social environment of schooling affects adults’ attitudes to fairness and Conservative vote choice, but that policies targeting these social environments have weak effects.
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Institutional Identity and School-Community Matters: "Encapsulated" and "Inclusive" Lessons for Engagement from Two International Schools in Hong Kong.
TL;DR: This article used data collected as part of a mixed-methods PhD study of the conditions that make international schools engaging places for students to explore the school culture and community contexts that impact student engagement.