Social Theory Applied extended blogpost. Using a capitals frame to understand boarding schools: exposing the economic ‘elephant’…

Using a capitals frame to understand boarding schools: exposing the economic ‘elephant’… Published by Joan Forbes on January 13, 2014 |

by Joan Forbes, Gaby Weiner, John Horne, Bob Lingard

[this is a response to a previous post What are the capital benefits of boarding schools?]

An interesting post today, Mark, on the new article by Bass (2014) which applies a capitals frame to understand boarding schools: we share your surprise regarding ‘the lack of any sustained discussion of how forms of capital (in particular economic capital) buy you access to such schools in the first place’.