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The High Status Track : Studies of Elite Schools and Stratification.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY Series, Frontiers in Education SeriesPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 1990Copyright date: ©1990Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (173 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781438409122
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The High Status TrackDDC classification:
  • 371.96/2/0973
LOC classification:
  • LC4941 -- .H54 1990eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- SUBJECT INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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Intro -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- SUBJECT INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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