The Craft of Elite Prosopography

Lunding, Jacob Aagaard; Ellersgaard, Christoph; Larsen, Anton Grau

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“…14 Muito utilizada em estudos sobre elites (Bourdieu, 1989;Charle, 2006;Lunding;Larsen, 2020), nos baseamos sobretudo na variante francesa da prosopografia (Broady, 2002). Sobre a prosopografia nos estudos de elites políticas, ver Heinz (2015).…”

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Sobre elites e instituições: caminhos de pesquisa

Seidl,

Barreiros

2024

Estud. hist. (Rio J.)

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Resumo O artigo se apoia em pesquisas sobre elites militares e empresariais para discutir o eventual proveito de esquemas analíticos que integram elementos da sociologia bourdieusiana e da sociologia das instituições no estudo de elites. Destacamos a problemática das condições de existência e dos mecanismos de legitimação de elites institucionais em contextos importadores como o brasileiro. Privilegiamos o exame das dinâmicas dos processos de institucionalização (do Exército e da “sustentabilidade empresarial”), com foco nas práticas concretas e nos dispositivos acionados em lutas pela definição dos critérios de hierarquização e excelência em cada espaço institucional. Defendemos em especial pesquisas atentas aos investimentos individuais na instituição, bem como às diversas formas de engajamento e às batalhas particulares ou coletivas travadas em busca de reconhecimento e de poder. Evidenciamos ainda a riqueza da combinação de diferentes métodos e técnicas de pesquisa social — de produção, de tratamento, de análise e interpretação de dados —, com destaque para a investigação sociogenética das instituições, a prosopografia de elites institucionais e a análise de suas principais estratégias e práticas discursivas.

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Sobre elites e instituições: caminhos de pesquisa

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Barreiros

2024

Estud. hist. (Rio J.)

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“…Changes in elite composition have been studied for long, from changes in the cabinet in the UK (Laski, 1928) and US (Mintz, 1975)-including links between cabinet and business (Freitag, 1975;Gill, 2018)-, or within business elites (Bendix & Howton, 1957;Friedman & Tedlow, 2003;Kaelble, 1980;Mills, 1945). Within the prosopography tradition (Broady, 2002;Lunding et al, 2020;Rossier, 2019), scholars studied collective biographies of elite groups spanning centuries, for example, on the Russian clergy (Plamper, 2000) or Finish business elites (Kansikas, 2015(Kansikas, , 2016, focusing on changes in social background, education, career trajectory and, sometimes, gender. It is shown how elites have slowly opened up to newcomers, while remaining very selective.…”

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From integrated to fragmented elites. The core of Swiss elite networks 1910–2015

Rossier

Ellersgaard

Larsen

et al. 2022

British Journal of Sociology

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This article focuses on historical elite dynamics and investigates elites' integration over time. We describe the changing relations and composition of the central circles in Swiss elite networks at seven benchmark years between 1910 and 2015 by relying on 22,262 elite individuals tied to 2587 organizations among eight key sectors, and identify for each year the most connected core of individuals. We explore network cohesion and sectoral bridging of the elite core and find that it moved from being a unitary corporate elite, before 1945, to an integrated corporatist elite, between the 1950s and 1980s, before fragmenting into a loose group, with an increased importance of corporate elites, in the 1990s onwards. The core was always dominated by business and their forms of legitimacy but, at times of crisis to the hegemony of corporate elites, after the Second World War and (only) shortly after the 2008 financial crisis, elite circles expanded and included individuals with delegated forms of power, such as politicians and unionists. In the most recent cohort (2015), the share of corporate elites in the core is similar to the one before the First World War and during the interwar period. This return to the past echoes findings on wealth inequality and economic capital accumulation by a small group of individuals organized around the most powerful companies.

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“…Within the prosopography tradition (Broady 2002;Rossier 2019;Lunding et al 2020), scholars studied collective biographies of elite groups spanning centuries, e.g. on the Russian clergy (Plamper 2000) or Finish business elites (Kansikas 2015(Kansikas , 2016, focusing on changes in social background, education, career trajectory and, sometimes, gender.…”

Section: Historical Elite Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Integrated to Fragmented Elites. The Core of Swiss Elite Networks 1910-2015

Rossier¹,

Ellersgaard²,

Larsen³

et al. 2021

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This article focuses on historical elite dynamics and investigates elites’ integration over time. We describe the changing relations and composition of the central circles in Swiss elite networks at seven benchmark years between 1910 and 2015 by relying on 22,262 elite individuals tied to 2587 organisations among eight key sectors, and identify for each year the most connected core of individuals. We explore network cohesion and sectoral bridging of the elite core and find that it moved from being a unitary corporate elite following family-based elite reproduction, before 1945, to an integrated corporatist elite involved in educational and professional-based reproduction, between the 1950s and 1980s, before fragmenting into a loose group in the 1990s onwards. The core was always dominated by business and their forms of legitimacy but, at times of crisis to the hegemony of corporate elites, elite circles expanded and included individuals with delegated forms of power, such as politicians and unionists, detaining more university credentials, and less transnational connections and elite family ties.

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The Craft of Elite Prosopography

Abstract: Elites are those who can impose upon others the duty of filling out questionnaires … those whose sociology no one dares to write (Schmitt 1991:181, authors' translation)

Cited by 9 publications

References 34 publications

Sobre elites e instituições: caminhos de pesquisa

Sobre elites e instituições: caminhos de pesquisa

From integrated to fragmented elites. The core of Swiss elite networks 1910–2015

From Integrated to Fragmented Elites. The Core of Swiss Elite Networks 1910-2015

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