Researching elites and power : : theory, methods, analyses / / edited by Francois Denord, Mikael Palme, Bertrand Réau.

• Superior document: Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences ; 16
• TeilnehmendeR: Denord, Francois.; Palme, Mikael.; Réau, Bertrand.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham, Switzerland : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Springer,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Methodos series ; 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) :; illustrations; digital file(s).

This open access book describes how elite studies theoretically and methodologically construct their object, i.e. how particular conceptualizations of elites are turned into research practice using different methods for collecting, dealing with and analyzing empirical data. The first of four section...

Table of Contents

• 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.