Members only : elite clubs and the process of exclusion / / Diana Kendall
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| Autore: |
Kendall Diana Elizabeth
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| Titolo: |
Members only : elite clubs and the process of exclusion / / Diana Kendall
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2008] |
| ©2008 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (202 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 366 |
| Soggetto topico: | Clubs - United States |
| Elite (Social sciences) - Social networks - United States | |
| Marginality, Social - United States | |
| Social capital (Sociology) - United States | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Members only |
| ISBN: | 0-7425-4555-5 |
| 1-4616-4010-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825518603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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