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The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power

By Pierre Bourdieu, Lauretta C. Clough (Translator), Loic J. Wacquant (Foreword by)
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By Pierre Bourdieu, Lauretta C. Clough (Translator), Loic J. Wacquant (Foreword by)
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In this major new work, Pierre Bourdieu examines the distinctive forms of power—political, intellectual, bureaucratic, and economic—by means of which contemporary societies are governed. What kinds of competence are claimed by the bureaucrats and technocrats who govern us? And how do those who govern gain our recognition and acquiescence?

Bourdieu examines in detail the work of consecration that is carried out by elite education systems—in France by the grande écoles, in the United States b...

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