How does one become a member of an elite profession? Managing
Elites examines how elites-in-training contest, rationalize and
ultimately enthusiastically embrace their dominant positions in
society. Using interviews with 79 law and MBA students, the author
argues that elite socialization requires both accommodation and
resistance to professional ideologies. Students develop a
collective cynicism about elements of their education, learning
that their discipline imparts esoteric knowledge - but also
claiming that they didn't learn anything. They struggle with the
idea that fellow students are all equally intelligent and therefore
deserving of elite status, and the continuing emphasis on
activities that sort students. Students resist that paths to
success promoted by school cultures-investment banking, consulting,
or becoming partner in a large law firm. Such cynicism is indeed
ultimately revealed to be temporary, as most students end up in
full support of these "jobs of least resistance". Their critiques
do, however, create tensions: between competition and cooperation,
between the individual and the collective, and between
egalitarianism and elitism. Part of elite socialization is learning
to deal with these tensions, or more specifically, to hold
contradictory ideals at the same time.
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