Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 646 g
Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 646 g
Reihe: Routledge Advances in Sociology
ISBN: 978-1-138-05919-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Since the financial crisis, the issue of the ‘one percent’ has become the centre of intense public debate, unavoidable even for members of the elite themselves. Moreover, inquiring into elites has taken centre-stage once again in both journalistic investigations and academic research.
New Directions in Elite Studies attempts to move the social scientific study of elites beyond economic analysis, which has greatly improved our knowledge of inequality, but is restricted to income and wealth. In contrast, this book mobilizes a broad scope of research methods to uncover the social composition of the power elite – the ‘field of power’. It reconstructs processes through which people gain access to positions in this particular social space, examines the various forms of capital they mobilize in the process – economic, but also cultural and social capital – and probes changes over time and variations across national contexts.
Bringing together the most advanced research into elites by a European and multidisciplinary group of scholars, this book presents an agenda for the future study of elites. It will appeal to all those interested in the study of elites, inequality, class, power, and gender inequality.
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1. Introduction (Johan Heilbron, Felix Bühlmann, Johs. Hjellbrekke, Olav Korsnes, Mike Savage)
Section 1: The myth of a global business elite
2. The international business elite – fact or fiction? (Michael Hartmann)
3. Degrees of transnationalization: the case of the Dutch business elite (Rob Timans and Johan Heilbron)
4. Dynamics of internationalization: A sequential analysis of the careers of Swiss Banking elites (Pedro Araujo)
Section 2: Scrutinizing the power elite and the field of power
5. A Place at What Table? An Analysis of Symbolic Capital Hierarchies at the Norwegian Central Bank’s Annual Dinner (Johs. Hjellbrekke and Olav Korsnes)
6. The gendered reproduction of the upper class (Maren Toft and Magne Flemmen)
7. A Scandinavian Variety of Power Elites? Key Institutional Orders in the Danish Elite Networks (Anton Grau Larsen and Christoph Houman Ellersgaard)
8. The anatomy of the British economic "elite" (Mike Savage, Katharina Hecht, Johs Hjellbrekke, Niall Cunningham and Daniel Laurison)
Section 3 Social closure and reproduction strategies
9. The Social History of a Capitalist Class: Wealth Holders in Stockholm, 1914-2006 (Martin Gustavsson and Andreas Melldahl)
10. Beyond Meritocracy: Wealth Accumulation in the German Upper Classes (Nora Waitkus and Olaf Groh-Samberg)
11. Gendering the elites: an ethnographic approach to elite women’s lives and the reproduction of inequality (Luna Glucksberg)
Section 4: Elite education, recruitment and legitimacy
12. The Elite Placement Power of Professors of Law and Economic Sciences (Felix Bühlmann, Thierry Rossier and Pierre Benz)
13. Elite…but not that elite: Envisioning Elite Status at a second rank ‘grande école’ (Ugo Lozach)
14. Boundary work – power and liminality in management consulting (Felix Stein)
15. Theorising elites in unequal times: class, constellation and accumulation (Mike Savage with Georgia Nichols)
