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Sport, Social Mobility, and Elite Athletes

2022
Abstract This chapter explores the association between sport and social mobility. Drawing on a review of literature and primary research on elite women’s road cycling, it is shown that opportunities for social mobility exist in sport, with key mechanisms being earnings, occupational status, educational attainment, and social prestige ...
Ramón Spaaij, Suzanne Ryder
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Elite Social Terrain and State Development

2022
This chapter explains state development, which the author defines as a dynamic process in which the state's strength and form evolve. It underlines that a state's strength refers to its ability to achieve its official goals, while the state form is a product of two separate relationships.
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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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Social Value Creation by Elites

2012
It is human nature to be ambivalent about successful and privileged people. We often take a negative view of some elite groups, whilst also sharing positive narratives about particular individuals, who are nevertheless usually also members of elites. These contradictory tendencies can be discerned in the evolution of academic thought.
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Perpetuating an aristocratic social elite

1998
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Piedmontese aristocrats and their blue-blooded counterparts elsewhere on the Italian peninsula confronted a world in which many of the old social boundaries and barriers had been dismantled or blurred.
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Economic elites and social capital [PDF]

, 2002
This study aims at understanding the behavior of economic elites in the Third World. Because economic elites concentrate the property of physical capital in society, their actions influence the living conditions of the masses. The literature on the elite’s behavior is, however, very limited.
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Korean elites: Social networks and power

Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2007
Abstract During the period of rapid industrialisation, Korean business elites sought to establish a ruling alliance of state officials, politicians, business owners, and professional managers that formed a social coalition to influence the state and society as a whole, reinforced through extensive social and political networks with various ruling ...
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Reviving Transnational Elite Sociality: Social Clubs in Shanghai

2017
In the last three decades, Shanghai has witnessed the proliferation of an array of social clubs, reviving memories of the club culture of a previous era. This chapter probes the sociality of the old and new clubs in Shanghai. Operating under imperial extraterritoriality, clubs in old Shanghai transplanted the social hierarchy from their home country ...
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Differentiated eliteness: socialization for academic leadership

Social Semiotics, 2017
ABSTRACTThis article examines how different forms of eliteness are reflected and produced in discursive practices in texts and participant testimonials published on two websites describing American university leadership development programs. It emphasizes the way that these practices operate to thematize and differentiate forms of eliteness (academic ...
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Social determinants of health and US cancer screening interventions: A systematic review

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2023
Ariella R Korn
exaly