New Directions in Elite Studies

Olav Korsnes is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bergen, Norway Johan Heilbron is a historical sociologist and Director of Research at the Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique de la Sorbonne (CESSP-CNRS-EHESS) in Paris, France Johs. Hjellbrekke is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bergen, Norway, and Director of the Norwegian University Centre in Paris, France Felix Bühlmann is Assistant Professor of Life Course Sociology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland Mike Savage is Martin White Professor of Sociology and co-Director of the International Inequalities Institute, LSE, UK

1. Introduction (Johan Heilbron, Felix Bühlmann, Johs. Hjellbrekke, Olav Korsnes, Mike Savage)

Section 1: The myth of a global business elite

2. The international business elite – fact or fiction? (Michael Hartmann)

3. Degrees of transnationalization: the case of the Dutch business elite (Rob Timans and Johan Heilbron)

4. Dynamics of internationalization: A sequential analysis of the careers of Swiss Banking elites (Pedro Araujo)

Section 2: Scrutinizing the power elite and the field of power

5. A Place at What Table? An Analysis of Symbolic Capital Hierarchies at the Norwegian Central Bank’s Annual Dinner (Johs. Hjellbrekke and Olav Korsnes)

6. The gendered reproduction of the upper class (Maren Toft and Magne Flemmen)

7. A Scandinavian Variety of Power Elites? Key Institutional Orders in the Danish Elite Networks (Anton Grau Larsen and Christoph Houman Ellersgaard)

8. The anatomy of the British economic "elite" (Mike Savage, Katharina Hecht, Johs Hjellbrekke, Niall Cunningham and Daniel Laurison)

Section 3 Social closure and reproduction strategies

9. The Social History of a Capitalist Class: Wealth Holders in Stockholm, 1914-2006 (Martin Gustavsson and Andreas Melldahl)

10. Beyond Meritocracy: Wealth Accumulation in the German Upper Classes (Nora Waitkus and Olaf Groh-Samberg)

11. Gendering the elites: an ethnographic approach to elite women’s lives and the reproduction of inequality (Luna Glucksberg)

Section 4: Elite education, recruitment and legitimacy

12. The Elite Placement Power of Professors of Law and Economic Sciences (Felix Bühlmann, Thierry Rossier and Pierre Benz)

13. Elite…but not that elite: Envisioning Elite Status at a second rank ‘grande école’ (Ugo Lozach)

14. Boundary work – power and liminality in management consulting (Felix Stein)

15. Theorising elites in unequal times: class, constellation and accumulation (Mike Savage with Georgia Nichols)