Researching Elites and Power: Theory, Methods, Analyses
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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.