Shamus Rahman Khan is the author of Privilege: The Making of An Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School. Khan is a graduate from St. Paul's school, one of the most elite schools in the nation. He elaborates how those who are elite have much more privilege than those who aren't elite. A social institution that have become relatively diverse and more open across races and gender, but those signs of democratic enlightenment hide the fact of their ongoing reinforcement of privilege, by exhibiting an unflappable ease in any situation. And marking those who are lower class to be discomfort and close mindedness to cultural diversity. People may think everyone can reach to be part of the elite but there's more than just reaching that point. It requires…show more content… Paul's School from those who were not. This shows how he sets that there are going to be people at every place on the hierarchy. From the Upper elite class to the working level class. As for Khan he claims that:
Mobility made elites insecure about themselves and their positions, and so just as elites opened economically an elite culture and tightly regulated network of social connections gained strengths, this culture and these social ties to one another made elites a more cohesive and closed social group. (Khan 2011: 26)
With this said, he believes that no matter how hard lower class try to incorporated themselves into the elite pool, there will always be a gap in between. A gap that will distinguish them apart from one another. Those from lower class are more acceptable to mobility than the upper class. Elites most of the time have some new trend or resources that make them unique and stand out from others. Something that will not change their title of being the ones with privilege. They even have the privilege to pass on their advantages to their progeny. They are more insecure about having the lower class reaching up to their social group than anything else. The elite want to be known as the elite. Khan state that students learn ease and how students were able to carry themselves and help them to have privileges. He explains how students had a advantage learning to ease it provided them with a sense of being expose to variety of social groups and prepares them to have positions in the future with power. Gaining skills that will help with interactions with different social
