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Author : John Wakeford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cloistered Elite written by John Wakeford and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Wakeford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Cloistered Élite written by John Wakeford and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674035683
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (356 download)
Download or read book The Best of the Best written by Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two years, the author shared the life of what he calls the "Weston School," an elite New England boarding school. Through it all, he developed a nuanced portrait of how these students make sense of their extraordinary good fortune in attending the school.
Author : Julia Lieblich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (479 download)
Download or read book The Cloistered Life written by Julia Lieblich and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Coomans
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462701431
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Life Inside the Cloister written by Thomas Coomans and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred architecture as reality and metaphor in secularised Western society Christian monasteries and convents, built throughout Europe for the best part of 1,500 years, are now at a crossroads. This study attempts to understand the sacred architecture of monasteries as a process of the tangible and symbolic organisation of space and time for religious communities. Despite the weight of seemingly immutable monastic tradition, architecture has contributed to developing specific religious identities and played a fundamental part in the reformation of different forms of religious life according to the changing needs of society. The cloister is the focal point of this book because it is both architecture, a physically built reality, and a metaphor for the religious life that takes place within it. Life Inside the Cloister also addresses the afterlife and heritagisation of monastic architecture in secularised Western society.
Author : J. Abbink
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137290552
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book The Anthropology of Elites written by J. Abbink and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering insightful anthropological-historical contributions to the understanding of elites worldwide, this book helps us grasp their ways of life and role in times of contested global inequalities. Case studies include the Polish gentry, the white former colonial elite of Mauritius, professional elites, and transnational (financial) elites.
Author : Benjamin H. Barton
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1641772050
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (417 download)
Download or read book The Credentialed Court written by Benjamin H. Barton and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Credentialed Court starts by establishing just how different today’s Justices are from their predecessors. The book combines two massive empirical studies of every Justice’s background from John Jay to Amy Coney Barrett with short, readable bios of past greats to demonstrate that today’s Justices arrive on the Court with much narrower experiences than they once did. Today’s Justices have spent more time in elite academic settings (both as students and faculty) than any previous Court. Every current Justice but Barrett attended either Harvard or Yale Law School, and four of the Justices were tenured professors at prestigious law schools. They also spent more time as Federal Appellate Court Judges than any previous Court. These two jobs (tenured law professor and appellate judge) share two critical components: both jobs are basically lifetime appointments that involve little or no contact with the public at large. The modern Supreme Court Justices have spent their lives in cloistered and elite settings, the polar opposite of past Justices. The current Supreme Court is packed with a very specific type of person: type-A overachievers who have triumphed in a long tournament measuring academic and technical legal excellence. This Court desperately lacks individuals who reflect a different type of “merit.” The book examines the exceptional and varied lives of past greats from John Marshall to Thurgood Marshall and asks how many, if any, of these giants would be nominated today. The book argues against our current bookish and narrow version of meritocracy. Healthier societies offer multiple different routes to success and onto bodies like our Supreme Court.
Author : Fredrik Engelstad
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838679154
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)
Download or read book Elites and People written by Fredrik Engelstad and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume of Comparative Social Research offers a broad set of comparative studies of elites, stretching from the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt to women's political leadership in Brazil and Germany, via attainment of elite positions among minorities in France and the US.
Author : Adam Howard
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 1607094592
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Educating Elites written by Adam Howard and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2010 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gaze of educational researchers has traditionally been turned 'down' toward the experiences of communities deemed at-risk, presumably with the purpose of improving their plight. Indeed, theorizing about the relationship between education, culture, and society has typically emerged from the study of poor and marginalized groups in public schools. Seldom have educational researchers considered class privilege and educational advantage in their attempts at understanding inequality and fomenting social justice. This collection of groundbreaking studies breaks with this tradition by shifting the gaze of inquiry 'up, ' toward the experiences of privilege in educational environments characterized by wealth and the abundance of material resources. This edited volume brings together established and emerging scholars in education and the social sciences working critically to interrogate a diversity of educational environments serving the interests of influential groups both within and beyond schools. The authors investigate the power relations that underlie various contexts of class privilege. They shed light into the ways in which the success of a few relates to the failure of many --
Author : Jerome Karabel
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618574582
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (745 download)
Download or read book The Chosen written by Jerome Karabel and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on decades of research, Karabel shines a light on the ever-changing definition of "merit" in college admissions, showing how it shaped--and was shaped by--the country at large.
Author : Benjamin H. Barton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781641772044
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Ivy League Justice written by Benjamin H. Barton and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our Cloistered, Elite Supreme Court starts by establishing just how different today's Justices are from their predecessors. The book combines two massive empirical studies of every Justices' background from John Jay to Amy Coney Barrett with short, readable bios of past greats to demonstrate that today's Justices arrive on the Court with much narrower experiences than they once did. The modern Supreme Court specializes in cloistered and elite lives. Today's Justices have spent more time in elite academic settings (both as students and faculty) than any previous Courts. Every Justice but Barrett attended either Harvard or Yale Law School, and four of the Justices were tenured professors at prestigious law schools. They also spent more time as Federal Appellate Court Judges than any previous Courts. These two jobs (tenured law professor and appellate judge) share two critical components: both jobs are basically lifetime appointments that involve little or no contact with the public at large. The current Supreme Court is packed with a very specific type of person: type-A overachievers who have triumphed in a long tournament measuring academic and technical legal excellence. This Court desperately lacks individuals who reflect a different type of "merit." The book examines the exceptional and varied lives of past greats from John Marshall to Thurgood Marshall and asks how many, if any, of these giants would be nominated today. The book argues against our current bookish and narrow meritocracy. Healthier societies offer multiple different routes to success and onto bodies like our Supreme Court"--
Author : Len Barton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415504112
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Schooling, Ideology and the Curriculum written by Len Barton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the different contributions to this book range over a wide spectrum of substantive issues, they share a common interest. This is a concern to explore the ways in which notions of the relations between theory and practice, between belief and action, can be used to develop three kinds of sensitivity in the sociology of education. A sensitivity towards how school systems are created, maintained and made to function; towards developing a more refined, critical and constructive awareness of the reliability and validity of descriptions, analyses and explanations offered in this field of study; and a sensitivity towards the ways in which changes take place within the education system and how the insights and realisations generated in the discipline might be used to control such occurrences.
Author : Hanneke Ronnes
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 908555361X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Architecture and Elite Culture in the United Provinces, England and Ireland, 1500-1700 written by Hanneke Ronnes and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study aims to elucidate concepts of castle in the Netherlands, England and Ireland in both past and present times. The first part of the book examines current, respectively, academic, national and personal appropriations of 'castle'; the second part moves into the past, juxtaposing elite culture and the spatial organisation of 16th and 17th century domestic architecture.
Author : Claudia Gabbioneta
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1837532788
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Organizational Wrongdoing as the “Foundational” Grand Challenge written by Claudia Gabbioneta and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizational Wrongdoing as the “Foundational” Grand Challenge: Definitions and Antecedents consolidates and extends knowledge on the subject of organizational wrongdoing and highlights potential directions for future research.
Author : JanetE. Snyder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351569082
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Early Gothic Column-Figure Sculpture in France written by JanetE. Snyder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated, Early Gothic Column-Figure Sculpture in France is a comprehensive investigation of church portal sculpture installed between the 1130s and the 1170s. At more than twenty great churches, beginning at the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis and extending around Paris from Provins in the east, south to Bourges and Dijon, and west to Chartres and Angers, larger than life-size statues of human figures were arranged along portal jambs, many carved as if wearing the dress of the highest ranks of French society. This study takes a close look at twelfth-century human figure sculpture, describing represented clothing, defining the language of textiles and dress that would have been legible in the twelfth-century, and investigating rationale and significance. The concepts conveyed through these extraordinary visual documents and the possible motivations of the patrons of portal programs with column-figures are examined through contemporaneous historical, textual, and visual evidence in various media. Appendices include analysis of sculpture production, and the transportation and fabrication in limestone from Paris. Janet Snyder's new study considers how patrons used sculpture to express and shape perceived reality, employing images of textiles and clothing that had political, economic, and social significances.
Author : Jeffrey Richards
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719018794
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Happiest Days written by Jeffrey Richards and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy Chandler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134511671
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book With God on their Side written by Timothy Chandler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sport' and 'religion' are cultural institutions with a global reach. Each is characterised by ritualised performance and by the ecstatic devotion of its followers, whether in the sports arena or the cathedral of worship. This fascinating collection is the first to examine, in detail, the relationship between these two cultural institutions from an international, religiously pluralistic perspective. It illuminates the role of sport and religion in the social formation of collective groups, and explores how sport might operate in the service of a religious community. The book offers a series of cutting-edge contemporary historical case-studies, wide-ranging in their social and religious contexts. It presents important new work on the following fascinating topics: * sport and Catholicism in Northern Ireland * Shinto and sumo in Japan * women, sport and the American Jewish identity * religion, race and rugby in South Africa * sport and Islam in France and North Africa * sport and Christian fundamentalism in the US * Muhammad Ali and the Nation of Islam. With God on their Side is vital reading for all students of the history, sociology and culture of sport. It also presents important new research material that will be of interest to religious studies students, historians and anthropologists.
