Dr Emma Taylor (@emmaemmatay) 's Twitter Profile
Dr Emma Taylor

@emmaemmatay

Lecturer in Education @KingsCollegeLon. PhD @LSESociology @LSEinequalities. Researching elite schools and inequality #sociologyofelites

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Mike Savage (@mikesav47032563) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great to see this outstanding study published, surely one of the top recent ethnographic studies of the culture of classical music production in diverse and multicultural urban spaces.

Flora Petrik (@flora_petrik) 's Twitter Profile Photo

✨️new date✨️ The BSA Bourdieu is organising an event to tribute the life and work of Diane Reay 🎉 'Habitus of a Lifetime: Celebrating Feminist Sociology of Class, Gender & Race', 08/11/24, Bristol. Limited spots. Please spread! Info & Register here: shorturl.at/SjMhU

B Jl Sociology of Ed (bjse.bsky.social) (@bjsoced) 's Twitter Profile Photo

[New article alert 🏆] Private school entry to Oxbridge: how cultural capital counts in the making of elites 😀Rachel Louise Stenhouse & Nicola Ingram Prof Nicola Ingram tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Chana Teeger @cteeger.bsky.social (@cteeger) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢📚If you want to read a good and succinct summary of my book, Distancing the Past, then check out this feature article in the latest Research for the World magazine: lse.ac.uk/research/resea… @MethodologyLSE LSE LSE Inequalities Columbia University Press @ei_schwartz

LSE Inequalities (@lseinequalities) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📄‘A Home Away from Home’: Space, Ritual and Performance at an Elite Boys’ School in England The latest article by Dr Emma Taylor focuses on school rituals to provide unique insights into the micro-practices of elite formation. ⬇️ ow.ly/VyHe50SMozL

LSE Sociology (@lsesociology) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Are today’s power brokers a conservative chumocracy, or is a new progressive elite emerging with different values and political instincts? Save the date for a book launch with Sam Friedman & Aaron Reeves for their new book #BornToRule. 📆 Thursday 3 Oct, 6.30pm to 8.00pm

Are today’s power brokers a conservative chumocracy, or is a new progressive elite emerging with different values and political instincts?

Save the date for a book launch with <a href="/SamFriedmanSoc/">Sam Friedman</a> &amp; <a href="/aaronsreeves/">Aaron Reeves</a> for their new book #BornToRule. 

📆 Thursday 3 Oct, 6.30pm to 8.00pm
Stephen Base (@stephenbase67) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Drawing on Bourdieu, Reay & Goffman amongst others, an insightful ethnographic paper on habitus & ritual in a Private Boys School by @emmaemmatay journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… Let's Talk About Boys IBSC

Sociology Journal (@sociologyjnl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Emma Taylor’s (Dr Emma Taylor) new article advances ethnographic understandings of the distinctive micro-practices of the formation of elites taking place within a private boys’ school in England. Read below #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1177/003803…

Emma Taylor’s (<a href="/EmmaEmmatay/">Dr Emma Taylor</a>) new article advances ethnographic understandings of the distinctive micro-practices of the formation of elites taking place within a private boys’ school in England.

Read below #OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1177/003803…
Sam Friedman (@samfriedmansoc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fantastically insightful and detailed review of BORN TO RULE from Tom Clark in Prospect ‘An exhilarating and revelatory picture of the British establishment’ 🤩 Top class: the British elite, revealed prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/books/…

Claire Maxwell (@maxwell_claire) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How are the next generation of the global economic elite formed? @KJLillie & I have been following the trajectories taken by young people who attended an elite international school for this purpose...was it successful? theconversation.com/who-are-the-gl…

Harvard University Press International (@harvarduplondon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

70% of Rishi Sunak's outgoing cabinet were privately educated, compared to 17% of Keir Starmer's incoming cabinet. On BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed, co-author of Born to Rule, @AaronSReeves explains the impact class background has on political ideology: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Aaron Reeves (@aaronsreeves) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Oxbridge grads have dominated the elite for decades and their alumni still disproportionately come from private schools. As @samfriedmansoc and I argue in today's Times Higher Education, reducing the number of privately educated elites means changing the admissions process at elite unis

Shereen Fernandez (@shereenfdz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How does the Prevent Duty stick to certain bodies more than others? Read my journal article here on the impacts of counter-extremism measures on Muslim teachers in London

Mike Savage (@mikesav47032563) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How do we rethink social class to recognise the power of wealth inequality in the contemporary asset economy? It was great to work with @NoraWaitkus & Maren Toft on this Sociology Journal paper. Rejected by 2 other journals- sometimes persistence pays off 😀 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

@alinecourtois.bsky.social (@aline_courtois) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Attention sociologists of elites / elite education / international education - an important special issue with excellent articles! Switzerland as a site of capital accumulation: the case of international education

Mike Savage (@mikesav47032563) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Am thrilled to report that LSE Inequalities has hired Faiza Shaheen on the research programme on ‘wealth, elites & tax justice’ that I convene. We will work to foreground the huge problems that wealth inequality generates, linking research to campaigning work. Welcome Faiza!

Faiza Shaheen (@faizashaheen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Really excited to have joined the team at LSE Inequalities - wealth inequality is destroying our democracies, blunting economic growth and directly impacting the ability of the working and middle classes to prosper. We need a wealth tax not just to raise money, but because the

Fiona Gogescu (@fionagogescu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Delighted my new article is out in B Jl Sociology of Ed (bjse.bsky.social). It explores how elite students from Germany and Romania understand the role of talent, effort, and structural factors in shaping educational success tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…