The Sociology of Elites: Critical perspectives
Author: John Scott
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 656
ISBN-13:
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The Sociology of Elite Distinction
Author: J. Daloz
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-11-18
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0230246834
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The Sociology of Elites: The study of elites
The Rise and Fall of the Elites
Author: Vilfredo Pareto
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0887388728
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Combining a thorough introduction to the work of nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Italian social theorist Vilfredo Pareto with a highly readable English translation of Pareto's last monograph "Generalizations," originally published in 1920, this work illustrates how and why democratic forms of government undergo decay and are eventually reinvigorated. More than any other social scientist of his generation, Pareto offers a well-developed, articulate, and compelling theory of change based on a Newtonian vision of science and an engineering model of social equilibrium. This dynamic involves a shifting balance among the countervailing forces of centralization and decentralization of power, economic expansion and contraction, and liberalism versus traditionalism in public sentiment. By 1920, Pareto had developed a scheme for predicting shifts in magnitude of these forces and subsequent change in the character of society. This book will be of interest to students, teachers, or general readers interested in political science, sociology and late-nineteenth/ early-twentieth century social theory. Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) was a pioneer in the field of econometrics, but gained fame, most of it posthumous, through his contributions to sociology and political science. Though often claimed by activist-rightist groups and a contributor to fascist thinking, he avoided alignment with any political movement.
The Sociology of Elites
Author: Michael Hartmann
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The New Power Elite
Author: Alan Shipman
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2018-04-13
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 1783087897
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Elites have always ruled – wielding inordinate power and wealth, taking decisions that shape life for the rest. In good times the ‘1%’ can hide their privilege, or use growing social mobility and economic prosperity as a justification. When times get tougher there’s a backlash. So the first years of the twenty-first century – a time of financial crashes, oligarchy and corruption in the West; persistent poverty in the south; and rising inequality everywhere – have brought elites and ‘establishments’ under unprecedented fire. Yet those swept to power by this discontent are themselves a part of the elite, attacking from within and extending rather than ending its agenda. The New Power Elite shows how major political and social change is typically driven by renegade elite fractions, who co-opt or sideline elites’ traditional enemies. It is the first book to combine the politics, economics, sociology and history of elite rule to present a compact, comprehensive account of who’s at the top, and why we let them get there.
THE POWER ELITE
Elites and Masses
The Rise and Fall of Elites
Author: Everett Lee Hunt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-08
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1351475088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Combining a thorough introduction to the work of nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Italian social theorist Vilfredo Pareto with a highly readable English translation of Pareto's last monograph "Generalizations," originally published in 1920, this work illustrates how and why democratic forms of government undergo decay and are eventually reinvigorated. More than any other social scientist of his generation, Pareto offers a well-developed, articulate, and compelling theory of change based on a Newtonian vision of science and an engineering model of social equilibrium. This dynamic involves a shifting balance among the countervailing forces of centralization and decentralization of power, economic expansion and contraction, and liberalism versus traditionalism in public sentiment. By 1920, Pareto had developed a scheme for predicting shifts in magnitude of these forces and subsequent change in the character of society. This book will be of interest to students, teachers, or general readers interested in political science, sociology and late-nineteenth/ early-twentieth century social theory.
Pathology of the Elites
Author: Michael Knox Beran
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2010-12-16
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1566638747
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this bracing collection of provocative essays, the author examines the false benevolence that characterizes the power classes in contemporary America. While they tragically conceive their desire for authority as a form of virtue, the elite classes have set about remaking schools, rewriting the U.S. Constitution, dehumanizing charity, and making war on tradition in the name of a crude form of Social Darwinism.
