The Sociology of Elites: The study of elites

administration AMERICAN BUSINESS ELITE AMERICAN POLITICAL analysis Anthony Giddens aristocratic background Bank of England bankers Baring Britain BRITISH POLITICAL ELITE businessmen Cabinet members capitalism capitalist careers cent century changes City classwide clearing banks clubs companies connections Conservative decisions Democratic directors directorships élite elite groups elite positions elite theory executives financial institutions firms Floyd Hunter governing class governing elite Grenfell Guttsman Hambros included individuals industrial interests interlocking Ivy League kinship Labour leaders leadership London major managerial managers membership ment merchant banks Michael Lisle-Williams middle class occupational organization origins ownership Oxbridge Pareto party patterns period pluralist population power elite professional proportion public schools recruitment retail Riesman Rothschild ruling class ruling elite sector social stratification society Sociology Stanworth status stratum Table tion top fifty traditional upper class W. H. Smith William Domhoff Wright Mills York