The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power Paperback - 1998 - 1st Edition
by Pierre Bourdieu; Lauretta C. Clough (Translator); Foreword by Loic J. Wacquant
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In keeping with the usual view, the goal of sociology is to uncover the most deeply buried structures of the different social worlds that make up the social universe, as well as the "mechanisms" that tend to ensure their reproduction or transformation.
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In this major new work, Pierre Bourdieu examines the distinctive forms of power--political, intellectual, bureaucratic, and economic--by means of which contemporary societies are governed. What kinds of competence are claimed by the bureaucrats and technocrats who govern us? And how do those who govern gain our recognition and acquiescence?
Bourdieu examines in detail the work of consecration that is carried out by elite education systems--in France by the grande ecoles, in the United States by the Ivy League schools, and in England by Oxford and Cambridge. Today, this "state nobility" has at its disposal an unprecedented range of powers and distinctive titles to justify its privilege. Bourdieu shows how it is the heir--structural and sometimes genealogical--of the noblesse de robe, which, in order to consolidate its position in relation to other forms of power, had to construct the modern state and the republican myths, meritocracy, and civil service that went along with it.
Combining ethnographic description, historical documentation, statistical analysis, and theoretical argument, Bourdieu develops a wide-ranging and highly original account of the forms of power and governance that have come to prevail in our society today.
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- Title The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power
- Author Pierre Bourdieu; Lauretta C. Clough (Translator); Foreword by Loic J. Wacquant
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 504
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
- Date 1998-02-01
- ISBN 9780804733465 / 0804733465
- Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 5.87 x 1.21 in (23.11 x 14.91 x 3.07 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.520
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