The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few
How does the US make sense of its elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, and fictional narratives revolv...
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| description | How does the US make sense of its elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, and fictional narratives revolving around the Ivy League and its peers in order to understand elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse. Among the book's most surprising and groundbreaking insights is the tenacity and adaptability of meritocratic ideology across all three sub-discourses, despite its fundamental incompatibility with the American educational system. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-713792025-08-13T14:12:34Z The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few Spieler, Sophie Social Stratification Distinction Meritocracy Campus Novels Capital Princeton Elite Education Class Discourse Analysis Neoliberalism Ivy League Curtis Sittenfeld Literature Education America American Studies Cultural Studies Cultural Theory Literary Studies thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies How does the US make sense of its elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, and fictional narratives revolving around the Ivy League and its peers in order to understand elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse. Among the book's most surprising and groundbreaking insights is the tenacity and adaptability of meritocratic ideology across all three sub-discourses, despite its fundamental incompatibility with the American educational system. 2021-07-20T02:00:24Z 2021-07-20T02:00:24Z 2021-07-19T13:54:42Z 2021 book ONIX_20210719_9783839457290_11 OCN: 1262308082 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50139 9783839457290 9783837657296 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/71379 eng American Culture Studies open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50139/1/9783839457290.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50139/1/9783839457290.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50139/1/9783839457290.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50139/1/9783839457290.pdf transcript Verlag transcript Verlag 7e97f9b9-be2b-4d9c-a928-3c8ebdfa443c Freie Universität Berlin a6adce6b-3f26-4535-92d8-598288bff431 9783839457290 9783837657296 transcript Verlag 276 Bielefeld [grantnumber unknown] open access |
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