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Attribution and contestation: Relations between elites and other social groups

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posted on 2023-08-30, 14:39 authored by Tijo Salverda, Irene Skovgaard-Smith
In this article we explore the often ambiguous relations between elites and other social groups, both subordinate and of relatively equal standing. The article draws on two distinctive ethnographic cases: the white Franco-Mauritian elite, and the expert elite of management consultants in a Western European context. Our analysis of the two cases provides insights into how the power and status of elites is both contested and attributed by the people they interact with and relate to in concrete, yet substantially different contexts and situations. The aim is to show how the position and power of different kinds of elites is relationally negotiated and achieved. As we argue, a better understanding of the role of other social groups in the attribution, maintenance and contestation of status is relevant for understanding both more traditional economic elites and expert elites without tight networks.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

38

Issue number

3

Page range

265-284

Publication title

Critique of Anthropology

ISSN

1460-3721

Publisher

SAGE

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2017-02-16

Legacy creation date

2017-02-15

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Lord Ashcroft International Business School (until September 2018)

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