New Directions in Elite Studies

Olav Korsnes is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bergen, NorwayJohan 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, FranceJohs. Hjellbrekke is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bergen, Norway, and Director of the Norwegian University Centre in Paris, FranceFelix Bühlmann is Assistant Professor of Life Course Sociology at the University of Lausanne, SwitzerlandMike Savage is Martin White Professor of Sociology and co-Director of the International Inequalities Institute, LSE, UK

• Chapter 1: IntroductionJohan Heilbron, Felix Bühlmann, Johs. Hjellbrekke, Olav Korsnes, Mike SavageSection 1: The myth of a global business elite Chapter 2: The international business elite – fact or fiction?Michael HartmannChapter 3: Degrees of transnationalization: the case of the Dutch business eliteRob Timans and Johan HeilbronChapter 4: Dynamics of internationalization. A sequential analysis of the careers of Swiss Banking elites.Pedro AraujoSection 2: Scrutinizing the power elite and the field of powerChapter 5: A Place at What Table? An Analysis of Symbolic Capital Hierarchies at the Norwegian Central Bank’s Annual Dinner.Johs. Hjellbrekke and Olav KorsnesChapter 6: The gendered reproduction of the upper class.Maren Toft and Magne Flemmen Chapter 7: A Scandinavian Variety of Power Elites? Key Institutional Orders in the Danish Elite NetworksAnton Grau Larsen and Christoph Houman EllersgaardChapter 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 strategiesChapter 9: The Social History of a Capitalist Class: Wealth Holders in Stockholm, 1914-2006.Martin Gustavsson and Andreas MelldahlChapter 10: Beyond Meritocracy: Wealth Accumulation in the German Upper Classes.Nora Waitkus and Olaf Groh-Samberg Chapter 11: Gendering the elites: an ethnographic approach to elite women’s lives and the reproduction of inequality. Luna GlucksbergSection 4: Elite education, recruitment and legitimacyChapter 12: The Elite Placement Power of Professors of Law and Economic Sciences.Felix Bühlmann, Thierry Rossier and Pierre Benz Chapter 13: Elite … but not that elite. Envisioning Elite Status at a sec