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Researching Elites and Power: Theory, Methods, Analyses

Researching Elites and Power: Theory, Methods, Analyses

Hardcover

Series: Methodos, Book 16

General Sociology

ISBN10: 3030451747
ISBN13: 9783030451745
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 13 2020
Pages: 276
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Section I: The Power Structure.- Chapter 2. The Power Structure and Membership Network Analysis.- Chapter 3. The field of power and the division of the labour of domination Handwritten notes for the 1985-1986 Collège de France lectures.- Chapter 4. Constructing a Field of Power. Reflections based on a Norwegian Case Study.- Chapter 5. The craft of elite prosopography.- Chapter 6. Legitimacies in Peril: Towards a Comparative History of Elites and State in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century France and Western Europe.- Section II: Economic Power.- Chapter 7. Researching national and international top managers. An interview with Michael Hartmann.- Chapter 8. Central bankers as a Sociological Object. Stakes, Problems and Possible Solutions.- Chapter 9. Firm's political connections and winning public procurements in Canada.- Chapter 10. Consultants and economic power.- Chapter 11. Fête in the factory. Solemnity and power among Porto's industrialists (1945-1974).- Section III: The Formation of Elites.- Chapter 12. How should historians approach elites?.- Chapter 13. How can we identify elite schools (where they do not exist)? The case of Ireland.- Chapter 14. ''In our school we have students of all sorts'. Mapping the space of elite education in a seemingly egalitarian system.- Chapter 15. The internationalization of elite education. Merging angles of analysis and building a research object.- Section IV: Symbolic Power.- Chapter 16. A sociology of the dominant class. An interview with Monique and Michel Pinçon-Charlot.- Chapter 17. When moral obligation meets physical opportunity. Studying elite lifestyles and power in the Saint-Tropez area.- Chapter 18. The social closure of the cultural elite. The case of artists in Sweden, 1945-2004.- Chapter 19. How to study elites' international capital? Some methodological reflections.- Chapter 20. Is a participant objectivation of elites and symbolic power possible?.- Chapter 21. Conclusion.

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