The State Nobility

Elite Schools in the Field of Power

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Pierre Bourdieu

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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 Zcoles, 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.

Author Biography:

Pierre Bourdieu is Professor of Sociology at the College de France. Stanford University Press has published nine other books by Bourdieu, most recently The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field (1996).

Release date Australia

December 1st, 1996

Author

Pierre Bourdieu

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributors

Foreword by Loic J. Wacquant
Translated by Lauretta C. Clough

Pages

504

Dimensions

152x229x20

ISBN-13

9780804717786

Product ID

27155013

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