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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452620303321

Autore

Kendall Diana Elizabeth

Titolo

Members only : elite clubs and the process of exclusion / / Diana Kendall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

0-7425-4555-5

1-4616-4010-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Disciplina

366

Soggetti

Clubs - United States

Elite (Social sciences) - Social networks - United States

Marginality, Social - United States

Social capital (Sociology) - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The world of exclusive clubs -- Exclusion and snobbery take a trip from London to America -- How to "chosen few" are chosen -- Membership has its privileges -- Making connections : clubs and political networks -- Change and resistance to change in membership policies -- Beyond the walls : the wider influence of elite clubs.

Sommario/riassunto

Members Only addresses how exclusive private clubs maintain and perpetuate class-based privilege and racial/ethnic and religious segregation, and how such patterns of social exclusion heighten social inequality. Members Only continues Kendall's study of the upper classes, which began with The Power of Good Deeds, and Framing Class.