Members Only: Elite Clubs and The Process of Exclusion / Edition 1

by Diana Kendall

Overview

In Members Only Diana Kendall shows how the upper classes use exclusive clubs as their private domain for conducting business, fostering social networks, and launching the next generation of elites - all beyond the view of outsiders and the media. In her research, Kendall explains how and why club members routinely engage in exclusionary practices that help them accumulate personal power and social capital that is unavailable to outsiders. 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. This book continues Kendall's study of the upper classes, which began with The Power of Good Deeds, and Framing Class.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742545564
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/25/2008
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Diana Kendall is professor of sociology at Baylor University and author of Framing Class: Media Representations of Wealth and Poverty in America

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The World of Exclusive Clubs
Chapter 2 Exclusion and Snobbery Take a Trip from London to America
Chapter 3 How the "Chosen Few" Are Chosen
Chapter 4 Membership Has Its Privileges
Chapter 5 Making Connections: Clubs and Political Networks
Chapter 6 Change and Resistance to Change in Membership Policies
Chapter 7 Beyond the Walls: The Wider Influence of Elite Clubs

Editorial Reviews

Kendall illuminates how membership is controlled by and envelops the privileged few with a capacity to exercise social, cultural, and political capital. Her distinctive treatment of these assets fleshes out specific details so well that students of inequality are guaranteed satisfaction. Highly recommended.

Choice Reviews

Kendall illuminates how membership is controlled by and envelops the privileged few with a capacity to exercise social, cultural, and political capital. Her distinctive treatment of these assets fleshes out specific details so well that students of inequality are guaranteed satisfaction. Highly recommended.

July 2009 Choice Reviews

Kendall illuminates how membership is controlled by and envelops the privileged few with a capacity to exercise social, cultural, and political capital. Her distinctive treatment of these assets fleshes out specific details so well that students of inequality are guaranteed satisfaction. Highly recommended.

July 2009 Choice

Kendall illuminates how membership is controlled by and envelops the privileged few with a capacity to exercise social, cultural, and political capital. Her distinctive treatment of these assets fleshes out specific details so well that students of inequality are guaranteed satisfaction. Highly recommended.

July 2009 CHOICE

Kendall illuminates how membership is controlled by and envelops the privileged few with a capacity to exercise social, cultural, and political capital. Her distinctive treatment of these assets fleshes out specific details so well that students of inequality are guaranteed satisfaction. Highly recommended.--CHOICE, July 2009

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