
Dr Emma Taylor
@emmaemmatay
Lecturer in Education @KingsCollegeLon. PhD @LSESociology @LSEinequalities. Researching elite schools and inequality #sociologyofelites
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✨️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

[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…

📢📚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

📄‘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

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



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…




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…

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


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…


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!

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

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…