SOCA02H3 Chapter 35: Chapter 35 MSL notes
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Sociologists c. wright mills argues that the most important decisions in this country are made by a cohesive power elite . Leading men in each of the three domains of power-the warlords, the corporation chieftains, the political directorate, tend to come together, to form the power elite of. Elite are people who have money, power, prestige. American society has never passed through a feudal epoch is of decisive importance to the nature of the american elite, as as to american society as a historic whole. For it means that no nobility or aristocracy, established before the capitalist era, has stood in sense opposition to the higher bourgeoisie. It means that this bourgeoisie has monopolized not only wealth but prestige and power as well. No set of noble families has commanded the top positions and monopolized the values that are generally held in high-esteem; and certainly that no set has done so explicitly by inherited right.
