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Public lecture: 'Understanding Elites' - Shamus Khan

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Dates:25 November 2014
Times:15:00 - 17:00
What is it:Lecture
Organiser:School of Social Sciences
How much:Free
Who is it for:University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students
Speaker:Prof Shamus Khan
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Since the financial crises of the late 2000s, and the uneven recovery since, elites have increasingly been the focus of political and scholarly attention. This lecture draws upon the work of a range of scholars to both give a portrait of the contemporary elite, and, outline the ways in which contemporary scholarship makes sense of them.

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Price: Free

Speaker

Prof Shamus Khan

Role: Associate Professor

Organisation: Columbia University

Biography: Shamus Khan is Associate Professor in the sociology department at Columbia University. His work is primarily within the areas of cultural sociology and stratification, with a strong focus on elites. He is the author of Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School; The Practice of Research (with Dana Fisher), and he is completing Exceptional: The Astors, Elite New York, and the Story of American Inequality (Princeton, forthcoming). In addition to his primary focus, he also writes in the areas of gender theory, deliberative politics, and research methodology. He recently served as an opinion columnist for Time Magazine and continues to write about sociology in the popular press.

  • http://sociology.columbia.edu/node/75

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