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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Power Elite"”.
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C. Wright Mills on the Power Elite and Education
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Paradigms of social stratification: the contemporary power elite debate
… and political science over the distribution of power on a national level (i.e., the Power Elite controversy), from a sociology of knowledge perspective. Three general theoretical positions were identified and analyzed in detail. The first of these is the pluralist or “multi-influence hypothesis” …
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Landscapes of Power The Social Network of the Power Elite in mid-Victorian Ireland Case Study of Thomas Conolly (1823-76) of Castletown, Co Kildare
… act as a catalyst to the control of hegemonic power of the ascendancy class in the second half of the nineteenth century. The nineteenth century saw the demesne come to publicly represent the overt economic and social power of the landowning class and has contributed to the highly politicised …
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Organizational Strategies of Influence on American Environmental Policy, 1976-2006: A Network Exploration of Power Elitism versus Pluralism
… environmental policy with considerations to the "power elite" and "pluralist" models of policy control. Using a data set comprised of 379 organizations derived from US congressional hearings on climate change policy between 1976 and 2006, I find that industrial corporations conceal the public …
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Youth, elites and distinction in a Northern Namibian town
This thesis illuminates the process of elite formation and the making of the public space in Rundu, an African middle-range town, against the background of wider transformations in postcolonial Namibia. I address these theoretical issues by bringing to the fore an intergenerational dialogue in the …
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Rethinking the African language curriculum (with special reference to SiSwati) : a theoretical and empirical study
… content of the curriculum as dictated by the power elite in Swaziland, the outdated emphasis on linguistics rather than sociolinguistics as an informing discipline and the absence of social and negative literacy skills embedded in subject content. The field study reflects an overall climate of …
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A comparative study on the educational debate in central Europe, with specific reference to Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia 1989-1991
… at the reforms initiated by the new ruling .power-elite in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. This reform process, embodying the value system of the new governments, has led, the dissertation seeks to show, directly to new and vibrant interest groups on the educational landscape. This study …
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The Military, Economy and the State: A New International System Analysis
… model based on an extension of C. Wright Mills' Power Elite (1956) thesis and empirically develop the model using a militarized division of labor. With data on 173 nation states, I validate my model through analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multivariate OLS regression. I also outline a theoretical …
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It's In Minnesota's Nature: An Exploration Into Building Social Capital Through Place Branding
… strengthened social capital among members of the power elite due to their existing political capital. Interviewed community members not directly involved with the branding, on the other hand, were faced with a loss of cultural capital and did not experience strengthened social capital because of …
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Elite women's household management: Yorkshire, 1680-1810
This thesis examines the managerial role of elite women from a range of Yorkshire country houses in the eighteenth century. This group provides a very rich number of cases for this analysis. It first sets contemporary views of elite women in light of the traditional constructions of gendered roles …
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In memories to the future, building from spontaneity : reconsidering occidental theories and third world realities
… for replication or are manipulate to benefit the power elite. The Third chapter explores 'learning from spontaneity' and is directed particularly to spontaneous settlements in the third world. This exploration demonstrates the interactive 'cross sectional universe' which impact the built …
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Networks, Clubs and Matching
… a simple explanation for the phenomena of the “power elite” and interlocking board of directors.
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Commonwealth collaboration in foreign affairs, 1939-1947 : the British perspective
… of international policy, such as the, Great Power veto or the position of 'middle' ranking states within the U. N. The dual role of the U.K. as a member of the Commonwealth and of the Great Power elite is also studied with a view to assessing the compatibility of these two. The next chapter …
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The intelligence regime in South Africa (1994-2014) : an analytical perspective
Intelligence, having espionage as its roots, is sometimes misunderstood due to its secret nature. It is due to this that intelligence as a vital component in a state, could be misused by the political regime through less democratic practices that infringe on human rights and the rule of law. The …
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Találkozás a szent igazzal : A magyar nyelvű orthodox zsidó sajtó cádik-képe (1891-1944)
… 1944. These are the responses of a journalism elite of an urbanising religious community to the trends towards individualisation as well as to changing attitudes towards the past and community traditions. First of all there is a need to define such key concepts as modernity and tradition. …