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Brown, A.L.

Stanford Univ Pr

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 écoles, 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.

The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power

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Lauretta C. Bourdieu, Pierre;Clough

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Michel de Certeau: Interpretation and Its Other (Key Contemporary Thinkers)

Michel De Certeau: Interpretation and Its Other (Key Contemporary Thinkers)

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Historical Study & Educational Resources

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Science & Math

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Biological Sciences

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Casual View of America the Home Letters of Salomon De Rothschild 1859 1861

De Rothschild, Salomon

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1979 reprint, spine creased, lots of underlining to text. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

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