Main group 1

Articles of up to 150 pages can be added by the course management.

The scope of the course literature falls within the framework of the guidelines established in accordance with the Student Union. For a course of 7.5 credits, the total number of pages should not exceed 1000 pages.

• Bourdieu, Pierre, The state nobility: elite schools in the field of power, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1996Compulsory* (about 300 pages)
• Bourdieu, Pierre, Homo academicus, Cambridge, Polity, 1988Compulsory* (about 200 pages)
• Börjesson, Mikael, Cultural Capital In the Elite Subspace of Swedish Higher Education, Part of: Poetics [e-journal], vol. 56, 2016, p. 15–34, Poetics 2016Compulsory*
• Börjesson, Mikael, Elite strategies in a unified system of higher education: The case of Sweden, Part of: L'année sociologique, vol. 66, no. 1, 2016, p. 115–146, Volume 66(1)Compulsory*
• Charle, Christophe, Legitimacies in Peril: Towards a Comparative History of Elites and State in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century France and Western Europe, Part of: "Researching Elites and Power: Theory, Methods, Analyses", 2020, p. 71–82Compulsory*
• Cookson, Peter W. jr., English and American Residential Secondary Schools: A Comparative Study of the Reproduction of Social Elites, Part of: Comparative education review., vol. 29, no. 3, 1985, p. 283–298, Volume 29(3)Compulsory*
• Hjellbreke, Johs.; et.al., The Norwegian Field of Power Anno 2000, Part of: European societies., vol. 9, no. 2, 2007, p. 245–273, Volume 9(2)Compulsory*
• Mills, C. Wright, The power elite, New York, Oxford University Press, 1999Compulsory* (Chapters 1–7 and 12)
• Serre, Delphine, For a Relational Approach to Cultural Capital: A Concept Tested by Changes In the French Social Space, Part of: The sociological review., vol. 63, no. 2, 2015, p. 433–450Compulsory*
• Ye, Rebecca, The Transnational Track: State Sponsorship and Singapore's Oxbridge Elite, Part of: British journal of sociology of education., vol. 36, no. 1, 2015, p. 11–33, Volume 36(1)Compulsory*
• Zanten, Agnès van; Ball, Stephen J.; Darchy-Koechlin, Brigitte, World Yearbook of Education 2015: Elites, Privilege and Excellence: the National and Global Redefinition of Educational Advantage (World Yearbook of Education), Routledge, 2015Compulsory*

* Compulsory