The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few. Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse.

Autor/in	Spieler, Sophie
Titel	The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few. Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse.
Quelle	Bielefeld: transcript (2021), 273 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (3) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit Dissertation, Freie Universität Berlin, 2017.
Reihe	American Culture Studies. 33
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	978-3-8376-5729-6; 978-3-8394-5729-0
DOI	10.17169/refubium-32197
URN	urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-refubium-32472-0
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Erziehung; Soziale Zusammensetzung; Roman; Elite; Soziale Klasse; Kapital; Dissertation; Abgrenzung; Verdienst (Ethik); Princeton, N.J.; USA
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. (Orig.).
Erfasst von	Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2022/3