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      A Typology of Elites

      The Few and the Many

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      The Few and the Many book

      A Typology of Elites
      ByEric Carlton
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1996
      eBook Published 30 May 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315239682
      Pages 232
      eBook ISBN 9781315239682
      Subjects Humanities, Politics & International Relations
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      Carlton, E. (1996). The Few and the Many: A Typology of Elites (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315239682

      ABSTRACT

      Social scientists are concerned with élites of many kinds - bureaucracies, military oligarchies, political leaders and the like. The study of élites is frequently characterised by a certain suspicion, and the tone of the enquirer’s description and discussion of such groups is often sceptical if not actually hostile. While not simply an attempt to redress the balance, this book is intended to provide the reader with a fair idea of the nature and variety of élites and to offer some explanantions as to why societies over a remarkably wide range of time, space and economic development have evolved a structure in which a small group exercises a disproportionate power over the great mass of their fellows. The first section deals with theoretical approaches to élites and élitism, summarising and criticising work from Plato and Weber, Popper, Scruton and Bottomore. The second section consists of a number of historical and contemporary case studies, ranging from Classical Athens to late twentieth-century Western society, which individually and in combination illustrate and amplify the theoretical material. The final section draws together the main arguments in the form of a critique and conclusions.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |32 pages

      Introduction: Theories of Elites

      chapter One|12 pages

      Elitism by Birth: The Hindu Caste System

      chapter Two|14 pages

      Elitism by Class: Social Differentiation in Classical Greece

      chapter Three|13 pages

      Elitism by Selection: Byzantine Bureaucracy

      chapter Four|18 pages

      Elitism by Race: Europeans and the Indians of Colonial America

      chapter Five|14 pages

      Elitism by Moral Right: Europeans and Early Colonial Contacts

      chapter Six|12 pages

      Elitism by Special Election: The Millenarian Phenomenon

      chapter Seven|11 pages

      Elitism by Conquest: The Tragedy of Cambodia

      chapter Eight|16 pages

      Elitism and Ecclesiastical Authority: The Church and Medieval Heresy

      chapter Nine|13 pages

      Elitism by Sex: The Gender Issue

      chapter Ten|13 pages

      Elitism by Party: National Socialism in Germany 1920–45

      chapter Eleven|12 pages

      Elitism by Economic Status: The Western ‘Models’ Problem

      chapter Twelve|9 pages

      Elitism by Culture: The Mass Culture Debate

      chapter Thirteen|12 pages

      Elitism by Education: The Status of Science Issue

      chapter |5 pages

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