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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Class Diversity and Youth Volunteering in the United Kingdom Applying Bourdieu’s Habitus and Cultural Capital
TL;DR: This paper used Bourdieu's theories of habitus and cultural capital to explain why there is a lack of class diversity in formal volunteering in the United Kingdom, finding that the pressure to meet targets forces workers to recruit middle-class young people whose habitus allows them to fit instantly into volunteering projects.
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Assured optimism in a Scottish girls’ school: habitus and the (re)production of global privilege
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TL;DR: This paper examined how high levels of social-cultural connectedness and academic excellence, inflected by gender and social class, constitute a particular school habitus of "assured optimism" at an elite Scottish girls' school.
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“With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility”: Privileged Students’ Conceptions of Justice-Oriented Citizenship
TL;DR: Fernandez et al. as discussed by the authors conducted a case study of eleven high school students in a social studies class at an elite private school and found that only one of these interpretations aligns with the tenets of justiceoriented citizenship and the desired outcomes of social justice pedagogy.
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Cultivating Success: Youth Achievement, Capital and Civic Engagement in the Contemporary United States
TL;DR: The authors investigated the meaning of civic engagement from the perspective of high-school-aged youth and found that youth link civic engagement with ambition and achievement as a means to build capital in a Bourdieuian field of youth achievement.