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Direct linkForbes, Joan; Lingard, Bob – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
This paper examines how high levels of social-cultural connectedness and academic excellence, inflected by gender and social class, constitute a particular school habitus of "assured optimism" at an elite Scottish girls' school. In Bourdieuian terms, Dalrymple is a "forcing ground" for the "intense cultivation" of a…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Females, Private Schools, Single Sex Schools
Horne, John; Lingard, Bob; Weiner, Gaby; Forbes, Joan – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2011
This paper draws on a research study into the existence and use of different forms of capital--including social, cultural and physical capital--in three independent schools in Scotland. We were interested in understanding how these forms of capital work to produce and reproduce "advantage" and "privilege". Analysis is framed by…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Private Schools, Foreign Countries, Social Capital
