SOCIOL 140 Lecture 6: Lecture 6 - Soc 140
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Throughout generations, the children of elites have gone to the same schools. If your parents or grandparents have stepped foot into these schools, future children are basically guaranteed a life of success. But once commoners acquire titles or enter elite schools/universities, they are expected to develop different habits than the commoners. Once you are in these schools, you are expected to change your personality/culture/accent to match that of the elite. In britain, you can tell someone"s class by their accent. [how different is the ivy league system from the oxbridge system?} Studies show a persistence of elitism in both education systems. Becomes a self reproducing system of elitism once you attend one of these schools, grants you life success as well as success for your children. Different elitism that persists in the u. s. then that in britain. "secret society" at yale; meant to be a bridge into the white. Many presidents have come out of that society.
