Essentializing merit: Disability and exclusion in elite private school admissions (Record no. 531533)
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| Personal name | Diaz, Estela B. and Rivera , Lauren A. |
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| Title | Essentializing merit: Disability and exclusion in elite private school admissions |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc | American Sociological Review |
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| Extent | 90(3), Jun, 2025: p.455-492 |
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| Summary, etc | Historically, elite schools have selected students in ways that reproduce advantages for dominant groups and exclude groups deemed undesirable. The specific outgroup in question has changed over time, but the underlying logic used to exclude these groups is often related to disability. Yet, disability as a social category has received minimal attention in discussions of elite reproduction. In this article, we draw on qualitative data collected from elite independent pre-K–12 schools to show that disability is indeed a salient basis of selection into elite educational environments, one that begins at the earliest moments of educational sorting: admission to elite early childhood programs. Through interviews with admissions personnel, we show that elite independent schools explicitly structure their admissions processes to identify—and exclude—children who are perceived as having or being at risk of developing any type of disability, regardless of impairment type or support needs. We argue that admissions practices at elite independent schools (1) serve as a form of social closure intended to restrict enrollment to young children perceived as able-bodied and neurotypical, and (2) represent a case of essentializing merit, in which elite gatekeepers construct merit as an intrinsic, rather than achieved, property of individuals.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00031224251326096 |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Elites, Cultural sociology, Education, Disability, Qualitative methods. |
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| Indian Institute of Public Administration | Indian Institute of Public Administration | 2025-09-12 | 90(3), Jun, 2025: p.455-492 | AR137211 | 2025-09-12 | Articles |