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The High Status Track
Studies of Elite Schools and Stratification
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"Elite preparatory schools and elite colleges have been neglected in the sociological literature. The research contained in this book suggests that recruitment to elite positions operates differently from recruitment to middle-class positions. This is highly significant." -- C. Hurn, University of Massachusetts
The essays in this groundbreaking volume significantly advance our understanding of the process by which an elite school education provides graduates with distinctly favorable life chances. The authors examine the contemporary issue and controversy in the field of education (and society) which focuses on both the advantages and disadvantages of public versus private schooling. Those interested in issues of social stratification and its impact in the educational context will find this a useful and important contribution to the literature in the field.
Paul Kingston is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Lionel Lewis is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at State University of New York at Buffalo.
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Table of ContentsTables and Figures
Introduction: Studying Elite Schools in AmericaPaul William Kingston and Lionel S. Lewis
Part I: Preparatory Schools
1. On the Making of Good Men: Character-Building in the New England Boarding SchoolsChristopher F. Armstrong
2. Chartering and Bartering: Elite Education and Social ReproductionCaroline Hodges Persell and Peter W. Cookson, Jr.
Part II: Elite Undergraduate Institutions
3. Patterns of Upper-Class Education in Four American Cities: 1875–1975Richard Farnum
4. Prestige in the Ivy League: Democratization and Discrimination at Penn and Columbia, 1890–1970Richard Farnum
5. Undergraduates at Elite Institutions: The Best, the Brightest, and the RichestPaul William Kingston and Lionel S. Lewis
6. Pathways to Attendance at the Elite CollegesJames C. Hearn
7. The Economic Pay-Off of Prestigious CollegesPaul William Kingston and John C. Smart
8. Pathways to Top Corporate ManagementMichael Useem and Jerome Karabel
Part III: Professional Schools
9. The Inside Tracks: Status Distinctions in Allocations to Elite Law Schools
Charles L. Cappell and Ronald M. Pipkin
10. Getting on the Fast Track: Recruitment at an Elite Business SchoolPaul William Kingston and James G. Clawson
Author Index
Subject Index
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