Read the book, Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School. And answer the question.
For this paper, Using the paper, Using the Privilege, explain the social mechanisms that institutions like St. Paul's use crea and reinforce class in young people. How does Kahn illustrate class as both material and symbolic, and how is it reified ideologically and behaviorally? In Privilege, which students seem to be successful inheritors of "democratic elite" status, and which are not? How can you tell, and what might they do differently?