New Directions in Elite Studies

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Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements 1 Introduction Section 1 The myth of a global business elite 2 The international business elite: fact or fiction? 3 Degrees of transnationalization: the case of the Dutch business elite 4 Dynamics of internationalization: a sequential analysis of the careers of Swiss banking elites Section 2 Scrutinizing the power elite and the field of power 5 A place at what table? An analysis of symbolic capital hierarchies at the annual dinner of Norges Bank (the Norwegian central bank) 6 The gendered reproduction of the upper class 7 A Scandinavian variety of power elites? Key institutional orders in Danish elite networks 8 The anatomy of the British economic “elite” Section 3 Social closure and reproduction strategies 9 The social history of a capitalist class: wealth holders in Stockholm, 1914–2006 10 Beyond meritocracy: wealth accumulation in the German upper classes 11 Gendering the elites: an ethnographic approach to elite women’s lives and the reproduction of inequality Section 4 Elite education, recruitment and legitimacy 12 The elite placement power of professors of law and economic sciences 13 Elite . . . but not that elite: envisioning elite status at a second-rank grande école 14 Boundary work: power and liminality in management consulting 15 Theorizing elites in unequal times: class, constellation and accumulation Index