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Shamus Rahman Khan, Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School

Janice Aurini
- 08 Jun 2011 - 
- Vol. 36, Iss: 2, pp 236-238
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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).

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Creating and upholding an elite community: ‘Consecrating exclusion’ in Djursholm, Sweden:

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Ethnography, theory, and sociology as a human science: An interlocution:

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News From Somewhere, News From Nowhere: On the Study of Interaction in Ethnographic Inquiry

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