Research on privilege and education often focuses on institutions that are elite in a rather
traditional way, for example schools that instruct the children of the upper classes according …

Theories of 'individualization'and 'risk'have shifted attention away from the material and
structural roots of inequality and sanctioned a psychologized view of class distinctions in …

This paper discusses findings from a small‐scale empirical exploration of the views,
experiences and educational practices of middle‐class minority ethnic families in the United …

This paper presents quantitative and qualitative research done with Year 10, 11 and 12
students at three very different Australian schools: an expensive private school, a public …

This study contributes to the contemporary debate within Western radical sociology of
education regarding the relationship between the social order and the processes of …

Abstract of Thesis Entitled: Scottish Secondary Education from a Critical Community
Psychological Perspective: Power, Control and Exclusion This research examines …

The persistent failure of contemporary policies to improve school retention rates and close
the achievement gap between students from low and high socio-economic (SES) …

This thesis is an ethnographic study of the informal realm in a North London comprehensive
school. Although situated within, and formed by, an institutional context, this network of peer …

Previous research on meritocratic ideology and elite adolescent identity has mainly
approached it from the outside, understanding meritocratic identity as a rhetorical cover to …

In recent times the sociology of childhood has played an important role in challenging the
dominance of Piagetian models of child development in shaping the way we think about …