Bøger af Peter W Cookson

Why do private boarding schools produce such a disproportionate number of leaders in business, government, and the arts? In the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, two sociologists describe the complex ways in which elite schools prepare students for success and power, and they also provide a lively behind-the-scenes look at prep-school life and underlife.

Pooling together writings from the leading academic authorities in education today, this single-volume reference provides readers and researchers with provocative new topics and issues in the sociology of education.