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Élites and Transnational Educational Strategies
(Eliter och transnationella utbildningsstrategier)

A research project at Sociology of Education and Culture, Stockholm Institute of Education

The research project Élites and Transnational Educational Strategies is funded by the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSFR, Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga forskningsrådet) and runs through the period 1 July 1995-31 December 1998. It is a collaboration between the Sociology of Education and Culture research unit at Stockholm Institute of Education and the Department of Economic History at the Stockholm University. The project is also a part of the European research network Formation des élites et internationalisation de la culture (Élite Education and the Internationalization of Culture).

The general aim of the project is to examine the relations between élite groups and higher education. Important questions are

One feature of the project is to combine French traditions of social science (inspired by the works of Pierre Bourdieu among others), with Anglo-Saxon research traditions concerning globalization (including, for example, Ronald Robertson, Mike Featherstone, Saskia Sassen, Arjun Appadurai).

Among ongoing and planned studies:

Staff

Project manager: Donald Broady

Co-ordinator: Mikael Börjesson

Mikael Palme

Ulf Jonsson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept. of Economic History, Stockholm University

Richard Palmer, Research Assistant, Dept. of Economic History, Stockholm University

Helena Wulff, Ph.D., Dept. of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University



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