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Elite athletes? Or elite parenting?
2022Organised sport is a prominent part of contemporary Western childhood, with many families scheduling their leisure time around their children’s sporting endeavours. Children who appear talented in a particular sport and find themselves competing at a representative level require a level of commitment and dedication from their parents that matches their
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American Journal of Sociology, 1942
Individuals of high "special personal prestige" belong to the elite of their group. Social ascendancy, however, is directed toward a position of high total social prestige. Such social prestige can be attained only when an individual holds an elite position in several elite groups that belong to elite categories.
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Individuals of high "special personal prestige" belong to the elite of their group. Social ascendancy, however, is directed toward a position of high total social prestige. Such social prestige can be attained only when an individual holds an elite position in several elite groups that belong to elite categories.
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Political Elites as Educational Elites
2017In twenty-first-century Western Europe, almost all incumbents in political office have very high formal credentials. Aristocracy, rule by the nobility, has given way to meritocracy, rule by the well-educated. This dominance of the well-educated in the legislative and executive branches is a relatively modern phenomenon.
Mark Bovens, Anchrit Wille
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Technical Elites and Social Elites
Sociology of Education, 1963The nature of modern scientifl knowledge is antithetical to the "sacred" character of knowledge exclusively possessed by traditional social elites. Though technicians may become a dominant group, this occurs only if they add to their technical character values whioh are transcendental.
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1993
According to Putnam,1 the analytical model of classical elite theorists, such as Mosca, Pareto and Robert Michels, consists of five elements: (1) Political power — like other social goods — is distributed unequally. (2) People fall into only two groups: those who have ‘significant’ political power and those who have none. (3)
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According to Putnam,1 the analytical model of classical elite theorists, such as Mosca, Pareto and Robert Michels, consists of five elements: (1) Political power — like other social goods — is distributed unequally. (2) People fall into only two groups: those who have ‘significant’ political power and those who have none. (3)
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AbstractThe many facets of US exceptionalism in global PHE reach their zenith when it comes to the world class heights of elite PHE. Only South Korea has rough parity between private and public in elite higher education, whereas the US remains alone for private superiority, which has even expanded.
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Elite, sub-elite, counter-elite
Social Science Information, 1983Monique Dagnaud, Dominique Mehl
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