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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Researching elite education: affectively inferred belongings, desires and exclusions
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Elites and Culture: Social Profiles in the Cultivated Population:
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Is Education Consumption or Investment? Implications for School Competition
TL;DR: This paper argued that giving parents freedom to choose schools would improve education, and they extended results from markets for consumer goods to e.g., to e-commerce, which would improve the quality of education.