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Elites and Social Bonds – How Nordic Were the Nordic Medieval Elites?

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The Afterword has a twofold aim: to sum up some main results of the studies in the volume, and to expand the scope of the endeavor by drawing on a wider European context, partly by discussing interaction between Scandinavia and the rest of Europe, and partly through comparison of similarities and differences between Scandinavia and wider Europe ...
Bijsterveld, Arnoud-Jan   +2 more
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Elite Social Circles

Sociological Methods & Research, 1978
We describe a method for locating the denser, or more cohesive, parts of networks. The method starts from the identification of cliques, or maximal complete subgraphs. Since there are numerous such subgraphs in most networks, they are then aggregated when they overlap sufficiently.
Richard D. Alba, Gwen Moore
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Social Transformations and Elites

Sociological Research, 1995
Revived interest in theoretical analysis of the social processes taking place around us seems to have replaced the journalistic tones that formerly predominated. However, the initial studies indicate that the investigators have not developed sufficiently precise political or economic categories.
Elena Avraamova, Iosif Diskin
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Technical Elites and Social Elites

Sociology of Education, 1963
The 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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The Elite and Social Sensitivity

Review of Sociology, 2004
1. It is common judgment that social sensitivity is the most important merit of the social elite, the leading stratum. It is particularly heard in the form suggesting that the new generation, the future elite, the prospective leaders are to be educated to have more social sensitivity than the quantity the old leading stratum used to possess. In general
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Social Origins of the Chinese Scientific Elite

The China Quarterly, 1999
The literature on China's social stratification and mobility has discussed the roles of family background and an individual's education attainment. This article aims to extend the existing literature by examining the interplay of these two aspects in fostering a homogeneous group of scientists, the members (yuanshi) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...
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