Shamus Rahman Khan's Priviledge: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School

Shamus Rahman Khan returned to high school and set goals after graduating ten years ago. That is to study school inequality that claims to be "more diversified". The St. Paul school in Concord, New Hampshire claims that it is diversifying every year, accepting people of various ethnic backgrounds and social classes to their famous boarding school. However, as explained in his book, Kahn discovered that the statement issued by the school was wrong. He also discovered that the elite who went to school in the past is different from the elite who attended school at the moment.

Shamus Khan, a sociologist at Columbia University and author of the book "St. Privilege", agrees that the composition of the elite has changed. "Everyone seems to have moved to an elite school," he said. "But elites seem to be more consistent with the wealth and power of our country." After the immigration reform in 1965, the country changed from European America to the American world . A small external wound, "Professor Caravel, said that this is not trivial, especially when compared to the trauma experienced by many societies in Europe, the proportion of citizens born in a foreign country is much lower, There are few people who are penetrating their elite.

In terms of privilege, Shamus Khan explores how St. Paul's, once a famous boarding school, was opened to diverse groups of elite students. This includes low income earners, non white people, and women. Even with the openness of this new discovery, inequality still continues. One type of major inequality in this system is the gender difference shown. These inequalities between men and women are obvious from the explanation of the double standard of academic performance and sexual behavior.

As Shamus Khan, we have some of these ideas in the work of sociologists who are studying how elite culture changes by becoming more adaptive by performance level. Studies on Khan's excellent private schools focus on cultures where students master the success of the exams and learn how to acquire excellent positions, rather than forming a closed elite culture featuring over two generations of students It is suggesting that I will be absorbed. . This brings an interest to cultural capital of "emerging" style, not just the old and more advanced form of cultural capital that Bourdie distinguished analyzed. This may be more important in the formation of new elite executives