dc.contributor.author
Spieler, Sophie
dc.date.accessioned
2021-11-02T12:32:01Z
dc.date.available
2021-11-02T12:32:01Z
dc.identifier.isbn
978-3-8376-5729-6
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/32472
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-32197
dc.description.abstract
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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dc.format.extent
273 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
Social Stratification
en
dc.subject
Campus Novels
en
dc.subject
Elite Education
en
dc.subject.ddc
300 Sozialwissenschaften::370 Bildung und Erziehung::378 Hochschulbildung
de
dc.subject.ddc
300 Sozialwissenschaften::370 Bildung und Erziehung::379 Bildungspolitik
de
dc.title
The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few
dc.contributor.firstReferee
Kelleter, Frank
dc.contributor.furtherReferee
Kanzler, Katja
dc.date.accepted
2017-06-16
dc.identifier.urn
urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-refubium-32472-0
dc.title.subtitle
Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.14361/9783839457290
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishername
transcript Verlag
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplace
Bielefeld
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839457290
refubium.affiliation
Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften
refubium.funding
Open Access Monographie
refubium.note.author
Die Publikation wurde ermöglicht durch eine Ko-Finanzierung für Open-Access-Monografien und -Sammelbände der Freien Universität Berlin.
de
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
yes
refubium.series.issueNumber
33
refubium.series.name
American Culture Studies
dcterms.accessRights.dnb
free
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dc.identifier.eisbn
978-3-8394-5729-0