Elite Basis of Elite Status Role of Schools
Elite Basis of Elite Status Role of Schools Aristocracy Status based on inheritance of titles (patriarchal inheritance based on legal marriage) Wealth comes from land (worked by peasants) which accompanies the title E. g. , Duchess of York Not necessary Capitalist Status comes from wealth (investment in railroads, oil, industry) Wealth comes from luck, connections, monopolies; cheap labor through union busting and immigrant workforce Cultural institution building: Carnegie Mellon University, Barnes Foundation, the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia E. g. , Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, John Rockefeller Schools not necessary for the first generation of entrepreneurs, but for the second generation it legitimates their position. New elite? Status comes from wealth Wealth seen as coming from achievement Greater openness to non-whites, non-male, nonproperty owners Greater economic inequality Khan wants to answer this question
What is art?
Cultural and Linguistic Capital: Khan’s Theory, p. 16 family’s economic capital cultural capital high educational credentials
What do you think young people should learn in high school and college?
Cultural Capital: What is valued academically in the curriculum at St. Paul’s School? • Did what you learn in high school and college correspond to what you wanted to learn or was it more like the curriculum at St. Paul’s School? • Link to tracking and economic determinism: Are people in different kinds of schools learning different things?
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