Multi-sited understandings: complicating the role of elite schools in transnational class formation

Autor:	Karen Lillie
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Class (computer programming) Sociology and Political Science 05 social sciences 050301 education Gender studies Social class 0506 political science Education Nationalism Globalization Elite 050602 political science & public administration Transnationalism Sociology Class formation 0503 education
Zdroj:	British Journal of Sociology of Education
ISSN:	1465-3346 0142-5692
DOI:	10.1080/01425692.2020.1847633
Popis:	It has been argued that a transnational elite class is emerging, and that elite schools are ‘choreographing’ this process. This article nuances this developing theoretical framework with empirical data from an economically elite boarding school in Switzerland. It demonstrates that young men and women at this site linked to a global economy whilst refracting geopolitical tensions in their interactions with one another. This draws our attention to the multi-sited understandings that elite young people develop, despite the widespread assumption that in modern globalisation, wealth can break down cultural and juridical borders. This paper thus importantly contributes to an emerging discussion about the possibilities and constraints of transnational class formation at elite schools. In particular, it suggests that different kinds of elite schools may fill different kinds of roles when it comes to such processes.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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