Consensus Amongst a Putative Elite: Some Empirical Findings

Abstract

Surveys children from 7 English public schools and state school children from Grammar, Secondary Modern and Comprehensive schools. Demonstrates that some groups are attitudinally homogenous and that their background is privileged in terms of attaining elite positions. If they achieve such positions they are likely to be in broad accord with others who are similarly successful. When state children achieve anything like attitudinal homogeneity it is often on items suggesting political passivity.