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How does the US make sense of its elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, and fictional narratives revolving around the Ivy League and its peers in order to understand elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse. Among the book's most surprising and groundbreaking insights is the tenacity and adaptability of meritocratic ideology across all three sub-discourses, despite its fundamental incompatibility with the American educational system.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- America. --- American Studies. --- Campus Novels. --- Capital. --- Class. --- Cultural Studies. --- Cultural Theory. --- Curtis Sittenfeld. --- Discourse Analysis. --- Distinction. --- Education. --- Elite Education. --- Ivy League. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Meritocracy. --- Neoliberalism. --- Princeton. --- Social Stratification; Distinction; Meritocracy; Campus Novels; Capital; Princeton; Elite Education; Class; Discourse Analysis; Neoliberalism; Ivy League; Curtis Sittenfeld; Literature; Education; America; American Studies; Cultural Studies; Cultural Theory; Literary Studies
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This open access book describes how elite studies theoretically and methodologically construct their object, i.e. how particular conceptualizations of elites are turned into research practice using different methods for collecting, dealing with and analyzing empirical data. The first of four sections focuses on what Mills named the power elite and includes Bourdieu’s field of power. The second section addresses studies of the domain of economic power, whereas the third section centers on research on elite education. The fourth and last section highlights research on symbolic power, either within social fields or as a dimension of social structure at large, areas where recognition is essential. All sections comprise empirical case studies of elites and power, whereby each of which makes explicit the various methodological choices made in the research process. Through focusing on methodological approaches for the study of elites and power and on how such approaches relate to each other as well as to the theoretical perspectives that underpin them, this book will be a valuable source for social scientists.
Social sciences. --- Social Sciences, general. --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Elites (Social sciences) --- Leadership --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social classes --- Social groups --- Social Sciences, general --- Sociology --- Elite education --- Power structures --- Economic power --- Qualitative methods --- Quantitative methods --- Monetary policies --- Open Access --- Pierre Bourdieu --- Network analysis and social space analysis --- Geometrical Data Analysis and regression analysis --- Symbolic power and life styles --- Society & Social Sciences
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