Preparing for Power
America's Elite Boarding Schools
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6552988 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter W Cookson, Caroline Hodges Persell |
| Year | 1987 |
| Pages | 260 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Preparing for Power (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Basic Books (PUBLISHER) |
| Open Library | OL7593868M |
| ISBN | 9780465062690 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 209 |
Bildung · Classes supérieures · Classes supérieures - Enseignement secondaire - Etats-Unis · Education (Secondary) · Elite · Elites · Enseignement secondaire · États-Unis · Internat · Internaten · Preparatory school · Preparatory schools · Preparatory schools - Etats-Unis · Schule · united states · Upper class · USA
Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe
School as solution to the problem of urban place
Sensitive Cowboys
Cultural Capital
Social Capital, Academic Achievement, and Postgraduation Plans at an Elite, Private University
How Does 'Culture' Become 'Capital'? Cultural and Institutional Struggles over 'Character and Personality' at Harvard
The Respectable Brotherhood
Going Co-Ed
Social Power and Power Over Space
Acting White
Learning to Not Labor
Learning Collective Eminence
The Road to Oxbridge
Public Goods, Private Goods
The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few
Education
School as a Social System
The Sense of Entitlement
Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe
What Is an Elite Boarding School?
Critical Bifocality and Circuits of Privilege
Socioeconomic Status and College
El Rol de los Colegios de Elite en la Reproducción intergeneracional de la Elite Chilena
Belonging and Boundaries at an Elite University
Education
Education
Cultureel startkapitaal, een blijvend voordeel
The Private School Network
Segregate, Discriminate, Signal
Socioeconomic status, cultural capital, educational attainment and inequality
‘Everything was going to be really easy for me’
Gender Justice within Elite All-Boys Schools? Possibilities of a Whole-School Approach
The Contributions of Parental, Academic, School, and Peer Factors to Differences by Socioeconomic Status in Adolescents’ Locus of Control
Inequality
Getting Rich
Elite und Exzellenz im Bildungssystem – Nationale und internationale Perspektiven. Einleitung
Mechanismen der Elitebildung im deutschen Bildungssystem
The rise and fall of highbrow snobbery as a status marker
Accumulation of cultural and social capital
Access, Status, and Representation
Distinction and Destiny
The material basis of elite schooling
Dilemmas of achievement
Education and psychological distress in adolescence and mid‐life
Problematising teachers' accounts of privilege in elite high schools
Ethos within the British boarding school
Field-specific cultural capital and persistence in college majors
Gender, Credentials & Success
Democracy's Orphans
Delineating Differences in How US High Schools are Racialized
Effects of National, School, and Gender Cultures on Friendships among Adolescents in Australia and the United States
The Meritocratic Mystique and Mathematical Mediocrity in Hard-to-Staff Schools
Privileged ESL University Students
Teacher Effects on Social and Behavioral Skills in Early Elementary School
The Frog Pond Revisited
Shadow Capital
Out with the Old, In with the New? Habitus and Social Mobility at Selective Colleges
Relationships between an ADHD Diagnosis and Future School Behaviors among Children with Mild Behavioral Problems
Career Funneling
Fifty Years since the Coleman Report
Youth Society in Early Modern France
The sense that we're invisible
Race and Class in America's Elite Preparatory Boarding Schools
Peer Networks of African American Students in Independent Schools
Two African American Women Graduates of Historically White Boarding Schools and Their Social Integration at a Traditionally White University
Children of Color in Independent Schools
Livschancer og social mobilitet - forskellige fødselsårganges vilkår
Why Achievement Motivation Predicts Success in Business but Failure in Politics
A theoretical analysis of the environmental effects of lead contamination over time on IQ, education and crime in America
Beyond and Below Racial Homophily
Toward a Critical Race Curriculum
Le recrutement des élites aux États-Unis au vingtième siècle
Primus inter pares? The French field of power and its power elite
Stigma and Status at an HBCU
Discrimination in the Credential Society
Chartering and Bartering
The Social Sources of Educational Credentialism
Toward a Political-Organizational Model of Gatekeeping
Differential Asset Conversion
The Winner-Take-All High School
Socialization Messages in Primary Schools
The Academic Ethic and College Grades
That's a Good Question!' Exploring Motivations for Law and Business School Choice
American Schooling and Educational Inequality
Sexism in Single-Sex and Coeducational Independent Secondary School Classrooms
Multicode Organizations
Microcomputers and Elite Boarding Schools
Sector Differences in High School Course Taking
Where Did the Global Elite Go to School? Hierarchy, Harvard, Home and Hegemony
You're Either In or You're Out
Measuring and Comparing a Century of Cabinet Formation in the Higher Education Systems of the United Kingdom and the United States
Representatives of All that is Noble
Financial and Economic Crisis
Digby Baltzeil
Thinking about Food and Sex
The Honored Outsider
Digby Baltzell
The One Percent
Can Digital Technology Bridge the Classroom Engagement Gap? Findings from a Qualitative Study of K-8 Classrooms in 10 Ontario School Boards
Mastering the jazz standard
| Unique citing works | 209 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,1 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2026 (42) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 195 |