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Dang Vu, Hoai Nam – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2022
Obtaining insights on the illicit consumption of endangered wildlife products is challenging, especially when the study objects are the super-rich. This research note draws upon my experience interviewing nearly 1,000 rhino horn consumers in Vietnam. Trust is crucial in such interactions. No interviews could have been conducted without good…
Descriptors: Wildlife, Crime, Foreign Countries, Interviews
Ellersgaard, Christoph Houman; Ditlevsen, Kia; Larsen, Anton Grau – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2022
This article discusses anonymizing elite interviewees. Based on our experiences with interviewing professional elites and ultra-elites in different research projects, we describe how the types of conflicts involving analysis and publication change when interviewees are not promised anonymity. We discuss how contextualizing the elite positions of…
Descriptors: Interviews, Confidentiality, Social Status, Advantaged
Kabel, Scott – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2017
Aaron Koh contributed to a collection of multi-site global ethnographic articles published here (2014, Vol. 12, No. 2) that present class reproduction as operationalised in elite education. While the collection adds to the current international critique of meritocracy, a close look at Koh's contribution reveals that critical ethnography can lose…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Advantaged, Criticism, Social Class
Sriprakash, Arathi; Qi, Jing; Singh, Michael – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
This article examines the different uses of equality in one elite international school in India. We focus on how conceptions of equality can be enrolled into particular scripts of benevolence and gifting through which elite distinctions are constituted and enacted. Our analysis of interviews with students, teachers and parents in the school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Schools, Interviews, Student Attitudes
Bertron, Caroline; Kolopp, Sarah – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
Drawing on our experiences of interviewing elites, this article suggests that methodological reflexivity yields insights into the construction of symbolic and social hierarchies in contextualised interactions. The paper focuses on "academic culture" as the "locus" through which power relations were experienced in interview…
Descriptors: Culture, Power Structure, Interviews, Research Methodology
Kim, Sung Won; Brown, Kari-Elle; Kim, Edward J.; Fong, Vanessa L. – Comparative Education Review, 2018
This article examines how Chinese citizens perceived the relationship between wealth and achievement among their former middle school classmates. It draws on a survey of 503 respondents in their late twenties and early thirties (who have been followed since 1999, when they were eighth or ninth graders in Dalian City, China) and on interviews with…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Interviews, Urban Areas, Correlation
Canny, Angela; Hamilton, Miriam – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
This article explores how a formal state examination system operates as a tool which enables the cultural reproduction of the middle classes in an increasingly market-driven education system in Ireland. It is based on a study of a group of final-year girls approaching the high-stakes terminal Leaving Certificate examination. The success of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advantaged, Middle Class Culture, Exit Examinations
Mangset, Marte – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
According to classical elite theory, increased circulation is related to increased integration which is thought to increase elites' power. Based on a comparative analysis of some European countries' elite education systems, recruitment to elite positions and degrees of circulation--with a specific focus on administrative elites--this article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Social Theories, Social Change
Tarc, Paul; Mishra Tarc, Aparna – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
The elite international school is a rich site for sociological inquiry in global times. In this paper, we conceptualize the international school as a transnational space of agonist social class-making given the dynamic positioning of the complement of international school actors. We position international schoolteachers in the middle of these…
Descriptors: International Schools, Interviews, Teacher Attitudes, Social Class
Finch, David J.; Peacock, Melanie; Levallet, Nadege; Foster, William – Education & Training, 2016
Purpose: The increasing demand for post-secondary education, and the ongoing difficulty students' face in securing appropriate work upon program completion, highlight the importance of an enhanced understanding of employability resources for university graduates. Just as organizations achieve a strategic advantage from resources and dynamic…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, College Graduates, Competition, Advantaged
Wainwright, Megan; Sicwebu, Namhla; Colvin, Christopher J.; Gong, Estelle; Henderson, Rachel; Swartz, Alison – Journal of Experiential Education, 2019
Background: Learning by experience in field schools (FSs) depends implicitly on the willingness of local residents to engage with students. Although critical perspectives have highlighted the potential harms of study abroad on local people, their views are less frequently investigated. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to explore the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Motivation, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship
Ziegler, Sandra – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
This article analyses the strategies found in two elite secondary institutions in Buenos Aires designed to legitimise the selection of students aspiring to become members of the elite. The first are personalization strategies where teachers and students work together with the aim of facilitating success in examinations. The second are strategies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Public Schools, Private Schools
Nicholl, Elizabeth; Loewenthal, Del; Gaitanidis, Anastasios – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2016
Working with suicidal clients is perceived to be demanding and anxiety provoking for psychotherapists. This investigation explores what it is like for psychotherapists who work with suicidal clients, particularly as within the prevailing culture there is an increasing focus on strategies aimed at suicide prevention. Five themes were identified…
Descriptors: Suicide, Psychotherapy, Work Experience, Client Characteristics (Human Services)
Lim, Leonel; Apple, Michael W. – Curriculum Inquiry, 2015
While much of the critical scholarship around elite schooling has focused on the students who attend elite institutions, their social class locations, privileged habituses and cultural capital, this paper foregrounds curricular form itself as a central mechanism in the (re)production of elites. Using Basil Bernstein's conceptual framework of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advantaged, Social Class, Secondary School Curriculum
Spitzman, Emily; Waugh, Michael – Journal of International Students, 2018
This article describes the origin and curriculum of Identity Dialogues, a program which facilitates conversations about power and privilege among international and domestic students. It was developed as a result of findings from an ethnographic study of an unstructured conversation partner program at the same institution. The study found that…
Descriptors: Intercultural Programs, Theory Practice Relationship, Praxis, Power Structure