Elite Schooling and Social Inequality: Privilege and Power in Ireland’s Top Private Schools
- Submitting institution
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The University of Bath
- Unit of assessment
- 23 - Education
- Output identifier
- 189989882
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1057/978-1-137-52277-1
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 978-1-137-52276-4
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This sole-authored academic monograph is claimed for double-weighting as it is the first significant sociological study of elite education in Ireland. Based on a five-year IRC-funded project, it provides a theoretically informed, rich ethnographic account of the processes of elite reproduction in Ireland’s secretive private schools. From the selection process to past pupils’ union events, from the dorms to the rugby pitch, the book unravels how these schools gradually reinforce exclusionary practices and socialize their students to power and privilege. The book tackles the myth of classlessness in Ireland and offers a unique contribution to research on elite education.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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