American Campus Podcast
a social and political history of higher education
American Campus Podcast
How class is reproduced in elite private schools with Emma Taylor
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
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References and suggested readings:
- Emma Taylor. 2026. An Elite Education: How Privilege Is Produced in a Private School. Princeton University Press.
- Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison. 2020. The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to Be Privileged. Policy Press.
- Michael Foucault. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.
- Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc J D Wacquant. 1992. An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology. University of Chicago Press.
- Karen Gravett. 2024. Relational Pedagogies: Connections and Mattering in Higher Education. Bloomsbury Academic.
- Lauren White, Will Mason, Vicky Grant, Alison Romaine, Grace Cleary, and Shona Tulloch. April 2026. Towards a Pedagogy of Joy. British Journal of Sociology of Education.
- Emma Taylor’s LinkedIn
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