New Directions in Elite Studies

ISBN-13: 9781138059191 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 322 str.

Opis

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.

O autorze

Olav Korsnes is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bergen, Norway

Johan Heilbron is a historical sociologist and Director of Research at the Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique de la Sorbonne (CESSP-CNRS-EHESS) in Paris, France

Johs. Hjellbrekke is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bergen, Norway, and Director of the Norwegian University Centre in Paris, France

Felix Bühlmann is Assistant Professor of Life Course Sociology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Mike Savage is Martin White Professor of Sociology and co-Director of the International Inequalities Institute, LSE, UK