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Book Synopsis The Sociology of Elite Distinction by : J. Daloz
Download or read book The Sociology of Elite Distinction written by J. Daloz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new contribution to the study of consumption examines how dominant groups express and display their sense of superiority through material and aesthetic attributes, demonstrating that differences from one society to another, and across historical periods, challenge current understandings of elite distinction.
Book Synopsis The Sociology of Elite Distinction by : Jean-Pascal Daloz
Download or read book The Sociology of Elite Distinction written by Jean-Pascal Daloz and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new contribution to the study of consumption examines how dominant groups express and display their sense of superiority through material and aesthetic attributes, demonstrating that differences from one society to another, and across historical periods, challenge current understandings of elite distinction.
Book Synopsis The Anthropology of Elites by : J. Abbink
Download or read book The Anthropology of Elites written by J. Abbink and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering insightful anthropological-historical contributions to the understanding of elites worldwide, this book helps us grasp their ways of life and role in times of contested global inequalities. Case studies include the Polish gentry, the white former colonial elite of Mauritius, professional elites, and transnational (financial) elites.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Social Distinction by : J. Daloz
Download or read book Rethinking Social Distinction written by J. Daloz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The analysis of social distinction cannot indefinitely remain confined to logics of reasoning that are markedly ethnocentric. Rather than just applying the consecrated schemes of Veblen or Bourdieu, Daloz provides new foundations in this book for understanding 21st Century Dubai, China, Russia and settings of the past.
Download or read book Distinction written by Pierre Bourdieu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines differences in taste between modern French classes, discusses the relationship between culture and politics, and outlines the strategies of pretension.
Book Synopsis Distinction, Exclusivity and Whiteness by : Pere Ayling
Download or read book Distinction, Exclusivity and Whiteness written by Pere Ayling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers unique insights into elite Nigerian parents’ engagement with, and use of, the international secondary education market as they attempt to retain their social standing - via their children - under today’s shifting global conditions. Throughout, the book tackles two important, albeit uncomfortable questions: Why does whiteness hold the highest possible value in postcolonial societies such as Nigeria? And, more importantly, why do black people accept the hegemonic discourse that West/white is best? Combining the theoretical frameworks of Pierre Bourdieu and Frantz Fanon, the book reveals ‘Whiteness’ as a highly valuable form of cultural and symbolic capital that plays a crucial role in the formation of, and struggle for, elite status and distinction in modern-day Nigeria. Drawing on rare qualitative data sets along with postcolonial literatures, the book reveals how British whiteness is used by those working at and for British private schools in Nigeria (BPS-NIG) as an informal but powerful mechanism of ‘quality’ control, and in constructing the image of ‘world-class’ educational establishments.
Book Synopsis Culture, Class, Distinction by : Tony Bennett
Download or read book Culture, Class, Distinction written by Tony Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the first systematic study of cultural capital in contemporary Britain, Culture, Class, Distinction examines the role played by culture in the relationships between class, gender and ethnicity. Its findings promise a major revaluation of the legacy of Pierre Bourdieu’s account of the relationships between class and culture.
Book Synopsis The Sociology of Elites by : Michael Hartmann
Download or read book The Sociology of Elites written by Michael Hartmann and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In view of the drastically growing divide between rich and poor, people in many industrialized countries are asking about the responsibility of elites for society. Are the activities of elites determined primarily by their responsibility for the common good of the population or by their interest in enlarging their own power and wealth? This book pursues two aims in attempting to come up with an answer to this question. Its first aim is to present a well-founded overview of the most important sociological elite theories, ranging from the classics in the field, Mosca, Michels, and Pareto, to Dahrendorf, Keller, and Bourdieu. Its second is to use the examples of the world’s five largest industrialized nations (France, Germany, the UK, Japan, and the US) to empirically demonstrate how the elites of a given country, above all the political and economic elites, are recruited and how they cooperate with one another.
Book Synopsis Elites: New Comparative Perspectives by : Masamichi Sasaki
Download or read book Elites: New Comparative Perspectives written by Masamichi Sasaki and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-12-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elites come in many forms, as reflected by this collection. From overview to comparative studies in diverse contexts, this work is both historical and contemporary, encompassing case studies of elite individuals as well as elites in nations and political environments.
Book Synopsis Elites and Society by : Tom Bottomore
Download or read book Elites and Society written by Tom Bottomore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-07 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this substantially revised and enlarged second edition of a classic text that has been used throughout the world in numerous translations, Tom Bottomore reconsiders élite theory in the light of more recent studies. He examines the role and significance of élites in relation to classes and class structure in both advanced industrial and developing countries, and expounds the criticism of élites and élitism that have been formulated by democratic and socialist thinkers and movements. In a new concluding chapter, Professor Bottomore considers the prospect, as humanity approaches the millenium, for a renewed advance towards more egalitarian forms of society, in which all citizens would be able to participate more fully and effectively in the shaping of their social world. Tom Bottomore taught at the London School of Economics 1952-64, was Head of the Department of Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver 1965-67, and Professor of Sociology at the University of Sussex 1968-85 where he is now Professor Emeritus. He is the author of numerous books, most recently: Theories of Modern Capitalism, Allen and Unwin (1985); Classes in Modern Society, Routledge (2nd edition, 1991) and Between Marginalism and Marxism: The Economic Sociology of J A Schumpter, Harvester Wheatsheaf (1992).
Book Synopsis Beyond the Ruling Class by : Suzanne Keller
Download or read book Beyond the Ruling Class written by Suzanne Keller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Influential minorities have existed in some form in all human societies. Throughout history, such elites have evoked varied responses--respeet. hos-tility, fear. envy, imitation, but never indifference. While certain elite groups have been of only passing historical importance, strategic elites, whose mem-bers are national and international leaders, today are ultimately responsible for the realization of social goals and for the continuity of the social order in a swiftly changing world. This volume, which first appeared in 1963, markeda major advance in our theoretical understanding of these elites, why they are needed, how they operate, and what effect they have on society. Drawing upon the work of such classical writers as Saint-Simon. Marx. Durkheim. Mosca. Pareto. and Michels, and such modern scholars as Mann-heim. Lasswell, Aron. Mills, and Parsons, the author presents a challenging theory of elites that provides the framework for her examination of their co-existence, their social origins, and their rise and decline. The elites discussed here include political, diplomatic, economic, and military, as well as scientific, cultural, and religious ones. Systematically, the author surveys available em-pirical data concerning American society, and selected materials on Great Brit-ain. Germany, the Soviet Union, and the developing nations of Asia and Africa. Written with clarity and distinction. Beyond the Ruling Class remains a thorough and provocative treatment, rich in empirical insights, of a subject that will compel the attention of political scientists, sociologists, and historians concerned with themes of power, influence, and leadership in national and international life. Her new introduction to Beyond the Ruling Class is at once an appraisal of the current status of elite studies and a careful self-evaluation of her efforts.
Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of Political Elites by : Heinrich Best
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Political Elites written by Heinrich Best and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook presents a comprehensive view of the current theory and research surrounding political elites, which is now a pivotal subject for academic study and public discourse. In 40 chapters by leading scholars, it displays the field’s richness and diversity. The handbook is organized in six sections, each introduced by a co-editor, focusing on theories about political elites, methods for studying them, their main structural and behavioral patterns worldwide, the differentiation and integration of political elite sectors, elite attributes and resources, and the dilemmas of political elites in this century. Forty years since Robert Putnam’s landmark Comparative Study of Political Elites, this handbook is an indispensable resource for scholars and students engaged in the study of this vibrant field.
Book Synopsis Elite Discourse by : Crispin Thurlow
Download or read book Elite Discourse written by Crispin Thurlow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elite Discourse examines how language and communication – or just discourse – define, mediate and legitimize class privilege. It does so from the perspective of those people and places who often stand to gain most from inequality. Collectively, chapters consider language and communication that is elitist in its appeal to distinction, excellence and superiority; they also describe the ways in which various groups and institutions lay claim to ‘eliteness’ as a way to position themselves (or to be positioned by others) as elite or non-elite. As such, chapters are concerned as much with discourse about elite status as they are with the discourse of elites – those groups commonly defined by their material wealth, political control, or demographic rarity. Ultimately, Elite Discourse views ‘elite’ as something we do, rather than something we necessarily have or are. Indeed, elite status and eliteness point us to the rhetorical strategies by which many people differentiate themselves and by which they access symbolic-material resources for shoring up their status, privilege and power. This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Semiotics.
Download or read book Service Encounters written by Amy Hanser and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how department stores and marketplaces in China have become important sites where Chinese people understand, and perform, unequal social relations.
Book Synopsis The State Nobility by : Pierre Bourdieu
Download or read book The State Nobility written by Pierre Bourdieu and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining in detail the work of consecration carried out by elite education systems, Bourdieu analyzes the distinctive forms of power—political, intellectual, bureaucratic, and economic—by means of which contemporary societies are governed.
Book Synopsis The Return of Inequality by : Mike Savage
Download or read book The Return of Inequality written by Mike Savage and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions. The economic facts of inequality are clear. The rich have been pulling away from the rest of us for years, and the super-rich have been pulling away from the rich. More and more assets are concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. Mainstream economists say we need not worry; what matters is growth, not distribution. In The Return of Inequality, acclaimed sociologist Mike Savage pushes back, explaining inequality’s profound deleterious effects on the shape of societies. Savage shows how economic inequality aggravates cultural, social, and political conflicts, challenging the coherence of liberal democratic nation-states. Put simply, severe inequality returns us to the past. By fracturing social bonds and harnessing the democratic process to the strategies of a resurgent aristocracy of the wealthy, inequality revives political conditions we thought we had moved beyond: empires and dynastic elites, explosive ethnic division, and metropolitan dominance that consigns all but a few cities to irrelevance. Inequality, in short, threatens to return us to the very history we have been trying to escape since the Age of Revolution. Westerners have been slow to appreciate that inequality undermines the very foundations of liberal democracy: faith in progress and trust in the political community’s concern for all its members. Savage guides us through the ideas of leading theorists of inequality, including Marx, Bourdieu, and Piketty, revealing how inequality reimposes the burdens of the past. At once analytically rigorous and passionately argued, The Return of Inequality is a vital addition to one of our most important public debates.
Book Synopsis The Sociology of Elites by : Michael Hartmann
Download or read book The Sociology of Elites written by Michael Hartmann and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are the activities of elites determined by their interest in enlarging their own power and wealth? Presenting an overview of the important sociological elite theories, this book uses the examples of the world's 5 largest industrialized nations to demonstrate how the elites of a given country are recruited and how they cooperate with one another.
