Cosmo girls: configurations of class and femininity in elite educational settings

Allan, Alexandra; Charles, Claire

doi:10.1080/01425692.2013.764148

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“…In our research schools, boys and girls equally engage in service activities at home and abroad and similar tropes are used to encourage this. However, when considering specific types of service, particularly at service activities conducted locally, there are parallels between these and women's charity and girls' public schools in Victorian England (see also Allan and Charles 2014).…”

Section: Service As 'Women's Business': Historical Continuities and Cmentioning

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The gift economy of elite schooling: the changing contours and contradictions of privileged benefaction

Kenway

Fahey

2014

British Journal of Sociology of Education

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Privileged benefaction in elite schools and the moral dilemmas, contradictions and power politics involved are the focus of this paper. The notion of 'the gift' provides our analytical lens. We concentrate on two girls' schools -one in South Africa and one in England. These were both built, in various ways, on the British model of public schooling. These schools pride themselves on their gifting practices. We offer a broad overview of the different local and global manifestations of and justifications for these practices as they occur in these schools and in the transnational organisations of which the schools are members.

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Section: Service As 'Women's Business': Historical Continuities and Cmentioning

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The gift economy of elite schooling: the changing contours and contradictions of privileged benefaction

Kenway

Fahey

2014

British Journal of Sociology of Education

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“…There is already a body of ethnographically-informed literature emerging upon privileged or elite groups in specific locales demonstrating the capacity of the approach to access elite spheres. These include the middle-classes in the North West of England , an affluent and exclusive area of London (Burrows 2013) and elite schooling contexts in the UK and Australia (Allan and Charles 2013). Ethnography is therefore a proven means to study the collective ideas of class symbols, intra-class conflict and the contingent character of space.…”

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Rural Putsch: Power, Class, Social Relations and Change in the English Rural Village

Hillyard

2015

Sociological Research Online

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The paper uses ethnography to discuss a political putsch -a move from Old Guard to newcomer dominance -in an English rural village. Applying the conceptual ideas of Goffman on symbols of class status and Thrift (2012) on space and an expressive infrastructure, it responds to Shucksmith's (2012) call for research into the micro workings and consequences of class power in rural contexts. The analysis stresses the relevance of 'sticky' space (the residue of past social relations shaping the present, the dwindling amenities and a contemporary absence of pavements) and a contemporary blurring of rural and the urban identities (Norfolk/ London). Moreover, both Goffman's restrictive devices and class symbols (who garners support and who does not) and the temporal dimension of an expressive infrastructure (informing individual dispositions and orientations -class affect) now construct rural spaces. The paper therefore retains a flavour of sociology's obstinate interest in geographic milieu, but the stage is now one of a global countryside both influencing and influenced by local politics and elites. A global recession and the rural penalty, whereby rural residents' experience is more acute, has meant that not all spaces or agents are equal and some are therefore better placed to adapt, accommodate or resist change (Shucksmith 2012). In a climate of various rural crises (fracking in the 'desolate' North of England and the contentious culling of badgers), this paper uses ethnography to study the operation of rural micro-politics and by doing so highlight the value of an ethnographic approach for sociology for understanding the local in the global.

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“…Overseas trips and expeditions can be conceptualised as part of the 'cosmopolitan tourism' discussed by Vertovec and Cohen (2003: 7) which, they suggest, is built upon 'exoticism, commodification and consumer culture', and does not require any profound 'engagement with the Other' or loss of national identity. In this way, overseas 'others' become framed 24 primarily as means of 'resourcing the self', as Allan and Charles (2013) have noted with respect to overseas trips to 'help others'. They write:…”

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“…As a consequence of constructing these 'ideal pupils', other possible subjectivities are closed down. Allan argues that, within the site of her research, it was white, working class subjectivities that were silenced (Allan and Charles, 2013).…”

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The Hidden Internationalism of Elite English Schools

Brooks

Waters

2014

Sociology

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Analyses of UK higher education have provided compelling evidence of the way in which this sector has been affected by globalisation. There is now a large literature documenting the internationalisation of British universities, and the strategic and economic importance attached to attracting students from abroad. Within the schools sector, it has been argued that parents are increasingly concerned about the acquisition of valuable multicultural 'global capital'. Nevertheless, we know little about whether 'internationalism' and/or the inculcation of 'global capital' is an explicit focus of UK schools. To start to redress this gap, this article draws on an analysis of websites, prospectuses and other publicly-available documents to explore the extent to which internationalism is addressed within the public face that schools present to prospective pupils, and the nature of any such messages that are conveyed.

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Cosmo girls: configurations of class and femininity in elite educational settings

Cited by 37 publications

References 37 publications

The gift economy of elite schooling: the changing contours and contradictions of privileged benefaction

The gift economy of elite schooling: the changing contours and contradictions of privileged benefaction

Rural Putsch: Power, Class, Social Relations and Change in the English Rural Village

The Hidden Internationalism of Elite English Schools

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