西莫斯·可汗,哥伦比亚大学的社会学系教授,研究方向为文化社会学、社会分层和精英文化。他是圣保罗中学的毕业生,也曾在该中学任教。著有《特权:圣保罗中学的精英教育》和《研究的实践:社会学学者如何答疑》等。
发表于2025-03-03
Privilege 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
这本书值得推荐给所有望子成龙的父母以及即使没有孩子但仍在思索如何成为精英的人。 本书作者是哥大社会系教授,毕业于圣保罗中学,也曾在该中学任教,因此他有足够的经验去观察分析何为精英教育,精英与普罗大众的区别。 圣保罗中学是美国顶尖私立寄宿学校,学生全部去往美国...
评分 评分现在的特权 现在的特权跟过去不一样,不再表现耀武扬威、横冲直撞、飞扬跋扈。 现在的特权是一种被社会所认可的权力。不仅表现在有财富,也表现在有文化,有能力,有素质。这是可以通过学习和训练后得到能力。 在封建社会决定一个人的特权地位,是来自家族的等级身份,比如公爵...
评分 评分作为一本社会学领域颇有名气的著作,我只能遗憾地说,阅读体验实在一般。翻译是一个问题,对原著的翻译并不流畅,读起来有佶屈聱牙之感。当然,另外也许是我自身问题,觉得本身虽然有那么一些聚焦点,但整体上并不集中,显得比较散乱和随意。也即,论点和论证都不凸显,这是一...
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As one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, has long been the exclusive domain of America's wealthiest sons. But times have changed. Today, a new elite of boys and girls is being molded at St. Paul's, one that reflects the hope of openness but also the persistence of inequality. In "Privilege", Shamus Khan returns to his alma mater to provide an inside look at an institution that has been the private realm of the elite for the past 150 years. He shows that St. Paul's students continue to learn what they always have - how to embody privilege. Yet, while students once leveraged the trappings of upper-class entitlement, family connections, and high culture, current St. Paul's students learn to succeed in a more diverse environment. To be the future leaders of a more democratic world, they must be at ease with everything from highbrow art to everyday life - from Beowulf to Jaws - and view hierarchies as ladders to scale. Through deft portrayals of the relationships among students, faculty, and staff, Khan shows how members of the new elite face the opening of society while still preserving the advantages that allow them to rule.
非常的主流(未必是褒义)但故事非常生动(写作加一星),很容易理解这本书为什么那么火。但仔细一想就觉得其实理论贡献挺薄弱的。“文化杂食”作为新的“区隔”形式早就被Bryson这些学者讨论过了。对于身体的讨论还略算有点新意但还是在布迪厄的理论框架之下,更像是应用而非改进理论。最搞笑的是讲性别那一章唯一引用的性别学者是巴特勒, 反而几乎没有引用那些在巴特勒之前就从表演的角度来理解性别的社会学家(Goffman, West & Zimmerman) 。文中讨论的男女生在青春期对于性的不同体验Karen Martin在90年代就指出来了,同样没有被引用。
评分研究美国寄宿制高中是如何培养精英的以及探讨为什么美国社会强调“开放”和通过个人努力就能获得成功的同时,不平等却依然在增加。关于美国的新精英,不同于旧式精英标榜文化品位和特定的圈子,新精英强调的是一种“ease”的习得(小到如何和教师吃饭,穿着得体,如何和不同阶层的人互动)、对不同文化的兼容和了解、以及通过个人努力而非家庭继承来获得认可。这种 ease 的习得背后是学校所提供的无数次机会,而这些机会是来自穷人阶层的人所无法获得的。“通过强调个人努力而获得成功”实际上也是掩盖了 quality 和 character 背后的 condition---机会的提供依赖于财力;而且也使得 inequality 显得更为隐性。
评分Given what I am experiencing is how those underprivileged students are trained in the same way, sometimes I just can't help interrupting what they are encountering and really feel sorry for almost nothing can I do to comfort them when they experience those upset moments. I don't know how to treat them who has illusions about the great future.
评分定性课老师的ethnography^ ^Highlight of the semester. Fascinating.
评分key concept - corporeal ease; weakness - never a good idea to drop a theoretical term w/o elaboration, could explore class in a more powerful way, over-generalization in gender/performance chapter
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