Members only : elite clubs and the process of exclusion / Diana Kendall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kendall, Diana Elizabeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clubs--United States.

Clubs.

Elite (Social sciences)--Social networks--United States.

Elite (Social sciences).

Social capital (Sociology)--United States.

Social capital (Sociology).

Marginality, Social--United States.

Marginality, Social.

Social networks.

United States.

Physical Description:

v, 191 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield, [2008]

Summary:

In Members Only Diana Kendall shows how the upper classes use exclusive clubs as their private domain for conducting business, fostering social networks, and launching the next generation of elites-all beyond the view of outsiders and the media. In her research, Kendall explains how and why club members routinely engage in exclusionary practices that help them accumulate personal power and social capital that is unavailable to outsiders.

Members Only addresses how exclusive private clubs maintain and perpetuate class-based privilege and racial/ethnic and religious segregation, and how such patterns of social exclusion heighten social inequality. This book continues Kendall's study of the upper classes, which began with The Power of Good Deeds and Framing Class.

Contents:

The world of exclusive clubs

Exclusion and snobbery take a trip from London to America

How to "chosen few" are chosen

Membership has its privileges

Making connections : clubs and political networks

Change and resistance to change in membership policies

Beyond the walls : the wider influence of elite clubs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-184) and index.

ISBN:

9780742545564

0742545555

9780742545557

0742545563

OCLC:

191258439