New Power Elite

A contemporary companion to C. Wright Mills' landmark work The Power Elite, Heather Gautney provides a fresh critique of elites for the new millennium and an updated, comprehensive look at the structure of American power and its tethers around the world.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction: The Power Elite


• Chapter 1: The State, Part I


• Chapter 2: The State, Part II


• Chapter 3: The Military


• Chapter 4: Wall Street


• Chapter 5: Billionaires


• Chapter 6: Celebrity


• Chapter 7: Publics


• Conclusion


• Notes


• Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Heather Gautney is Associate Professor of Sociology at Fordham University. She has written and edited books, opinion essays, and academic articles on US politics, social movements, social inequality, and workforce issues in the entertainment industry. Gautney was a senior policy advisor to Sen. Bernie Sanders on his presidential campaign and in the US Senate Budget Committee. In 2020, she served on the Democratic Party's platform drafting committee and was co-chair of the Biden-Sanders Task Force on Education.

Zusammenfassung

A contemporary companion to C. Wright Mills' landmark work The Power Elite, Heather Gautney provides a fresh critique of elites for the new millennium and an updated, comprehensive look at the structure of American power and its tethers around the world.

Zusatztext

This illuminating volume helps readers understand events from the overthrow of the democratically elected Chilean government in 1973 to the power dynamics and erosion of social norms that set the stage for the January 6 insurrection in the US.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Heather Gautney, Heather (Associate Professor of Sociology Gautney
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 05.01.2023
• EAN: 9780190637446
• ISBN: 978-0-19-063744-6
• Seiten: 336
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Comparative Politics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Social Discrimination, Social discrimination and social justice