Klass i begåvningsreservens tidevarv : Taxonomiska konflikter inom och genom svensk utbildningsforskning, ca 1945–1960
This article studies conceptualisations of social class in Swedish education research, c. 1945–1960. The article follows knowledge produced about talent and class in state commissions and in the newly expanded social sciences, and how it in turn was interpreted and used in political debates and in the media. I show that the taxonomy of the population in social groups (Socialgrupper) was key for co