This article draws on data from 20 years of qualitative projects with parents to discuss and
analyse four issues. The first is the apparent responsibilities of parents to deliver both the …

What are the usual social purposes of elite schools? The sociological research about such
schools in England (Walford 1986), the USA (Khan 2011; Gaztambide-Fernández 2009; …

Why do more than three-quarters of Hong Kong's senior secondary students flock to tutorial
centres like moths to light? What is the “magic” that is driving the popularity of the tutorial …

Cotê has called for a focus on a political economy analysis, where young people should be
thought of as 'youth-as-class'. Cotê positions youth as having false consciousness, arguing …

In his influential studies of the relationship between cultural capital and social inequality,
Pierre Bourdieu (1984) famously argued in the French case that as educational …

In this paper the authors study 19 Global Middle Class (GMC) families currently residing in
four global cities: Hong Kong; London; Buenos Aires; and Tel Aviv. Through qualitative in …

This article examines the ways in which cosmopolitanism is imagined and planned for by 91
young women attending four private (elite) schools in one area of England. Despite many …

In the concluding chapter of this volume, Claire Maxwell seeks to offer some new
understandings about how internationalisation practices within education are altering our …

Amplified Advantage investigates the value and impact of today's small liberal arts colleges
through an extended examination of a recent cohort of students attending them. It …

Abstract Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's analysis of the competition for economic, social and
cultural capitals within educational fields, this article reports empirical research from 49 in …