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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821982803321

Titolo

The High-Status track : studies of elite schools and stratification / / Paul William Kingston, Lionel S. Lewis, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, c1990

ISBN

1-4384-0912-5

0-585-05499-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxiv, 261 pages) : illustrations

Collana

SUNY series, frontiers in education

Altri autori (Persone)

KingstonPaul W. <1951->

LewisLionel S (Lionel Stanley)

Disciplina

371.96/2/0973

Soggetti

Upper class - Education - United States

Social status - United States

Power (Social sciences)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""CONTENTS""; ""TABLES AND FIGURES""; ""INTRODUCTION: STUDYING ELITE SCHOOLS IN AMERICA by Paul William Kingston and Lionel S. Lewis""; ""PART I: PREPARATORY SCHOOLS""; ""1. On the Making of Good Men: Character-Building in the New England Boarding Schools by Christopher F. Armstrong""; ""2. Chartering and Bartering: Elite Education and Social Reproduction and Caroline Hodges Persell and Peter W. Cookson, Jr.""; ""PART II: ELITE UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTIONS""; ""3. Patterns of Upper-Class Education in Four American Cities: 1875�1975 by Richard Farnum""

""4. Prestige in the Ivy League: Democratization and Discrimination at Penn and Columbia, 1890-1970 by Richard Farnum"" ""5. Undergraduates at Elite Institutions: The Best, the Brightest, and the Richest by Paul William Kingston and Lionel S. Lewis""; ""6. Pathways to Attendance at the Elite Colleges by James C. Heard""; ""7. The Economic Pay-Off of Prestigious Colleges by Paul William Kingston and John C. Smart""; ""8. Pathways to Top Corporate Management Michael Useem by Jerome Karabel""; ""PART III: PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS""

""9. The Inside Tracks: Status Distinctions in Allocations to Elite Law Schools by Charles L. Cappell and Ronald M. Pipkin"" ""10. Getting on



the Fast Track: Recruitment at an Elite Business School by Paul William Kingston and James G. Clawson""; ""INDEX OF AUTHORS""; ""SUBJECT INDEX""