International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 5 Issue 4

GETTING ON THE FAST TRACK: RECRUITMENT AT AN ELITE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Paul William Kingston, James G. Clawson

There appears to be a recruitment process in which recruits tend to look at people much like themselves, proceed with an uncertain feel for what defines a desirable candidate…

EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS AND THE MENTAL‐MANUAL DIVISION OF LABOUR

C. Matthew Snipp

While the literature available shows that indicators of educational success are the most proximate influences deciding occupational class at the beginning of workers' careers…

LEADERSHIP TRAINING IN ELITE AMERICAN BOARDING SCHOOLS: RECONCILING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT IS TAUGHT AND WHAT IS LEARNED

Caroline Hodges Persell, Peter W. Cookson

Power without authority is fragile; to be effective, leaders must appear to deserve their positions. This sense of legitimacy is the most important end product of going through…

TARGETED PUBLIC FUNDING: THE NEXUS BETWEEN NATIONAL INTERESTS AND THE EXPANSION OF COLLEGE ENROLLMENTS

Jimy M. Sanders

There is little mystery as to why the publicly subsidised expansion of college enrolments has been common during postwar years: popular demand that college opportunities be made…

SEEING EDUCATION RELATIONALLY: THE “BOTTOM AND THE TOP”

Lois Weis

Education perpetuates inequality directly, in that messages distributed by schools are linked to student social class. A specific focus on the response of white working‐class and…

SERVICE SECTOR GROWTH, EDUCATIONAL ELITES, AND INEQUALITY: UNANTICIPATED CONSEQUENCES OF THE POST‐INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY

Joel I. Nelson, Jon Lorence

Educated elites are making their mark on the stratification structure of the metropolitan US. Educated elites are proportionally greater whenever the economy is service dominated…