Analyzing Elite Power in American Society

The Elite and Power in American Society

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How useful is the concept of ‘elite’ for understanding the distribution of power in either Britain or the United States?

Analyzing Elite Power in American Society

In America perhaps only race is a more sensitive subject than the way we sort ourselves out in the struggle for success. The eminent sociologist Robert Merton calls it the ‘structure of opportunity’. In the understanding of the usefulness of the term ‘elite’, there are some common historical variables, which must be looked at in order to appreciate the power organisms at work even in…