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New Directions in Elite Studies

New Directions in Elite Studies

Korsnes, Olav
Heilbron, Johan
Hjellbrekke, Johs

Paperback

Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

General Sociology

ISBN10: 0367889064
ISBN13: 9780367889067
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 12 2019
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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