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The State Nobility - Elite Schools in the Field of Power (Hardcover)
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The State Nobility - Elite Schools in the Field of Power (Hardcover)
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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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