RECRUITING OF TOP MANAGERS IN EUROPE - NA TIONAL EDUCATIONAL-SYSTEMS AND RENEWAL OF ELITES IN GERMANY, FRANCE AND GREAT-BRITAIN

Authors
HARTMANN M
Citation
M. Hartmann, RECRUITING OF TOP MANAGERS IN EUROPE - NA TIONAL EDUCATIONAL-SYSTEMS AND RENEWAL OF ELITES IN GERMANY, FRANCE AND GREAT-BRITAIN, Archives europeennes de sociologie, 38(1), 1997, pp. 3
Citations number
102
Categorie Soggetti
Sociology
Journal title
Archives europeennes de sociologie → ACNP
ISSN journal
00039756
Volume
38
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-9756(1997)38:1<3:ROTMIE>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
Seventy-five to eighty per cent of the ruling elites of the three main European nations (France, Great Britain and Germany) are drawn from t he middle classes, and their social recruitment has hardly changed ove r the last 25 years. According to the author, Bourdieu's theory of cla ss habitus and the role of cultural capital is thus strongly confirmed , refuting the common argument that the world of elites is opening up.