The Protestant Establishment RevisitedTransaction Publishers, 1 ม.ค. 1999 - 300 หน้า In the latter half of the twentieth century, The American upper class has become less like an aristocracy governing and guiding the nation and more like a caste, a privileged and closed body whose contribution to national leadership has steadily declined. This loss of power and authority has been the focus of the work of E. Digby Baltzell, whose 1964 work, "The Protestant Establishment, "analyzed the fate and function of a predominantly Anglo-Saxon and Protestant upper class in an ethnically and religiously heterogeneous democracy. After 27 years, Baltzell's theory of the structure and function of the establishment remains unique in the literature of class stratification and authority. Baltzell views an open and authoritative establishment as a necessary and desirable part of the process of securing responsible leaders in a democratic society. Such an establishment is the product of upper-class institutions that are open to talented individuals of varying ethnic and social backgrounds. The values of upper-class tradition include an aristocratic ethos emphasizing the duty to lead, as opposed to the snobbish ethos of caste that emphasizes only the right to privilege. Baltzell regards this as a protector of freedom in modern democratic societies, guaranteeing rules of fair play in contests of power and opinion. As Baltzell points out, historically, the alternatives to rule by establishments have been, rule by functionaries and demogogues, neither of which has proven satisfactory in protecting freedoms. As against Marxists, who see hegemony as a social evil, Baltzell, following Tocqueville, sees it as necessary to the well-being of society. Hegemonic establishments give coherence to the social spheres of greatest contest. They do not eliminate conflict, but prevent it from ripping society apart. Baltzell's work provides uncommon insight into the relationship of social class and personal power in contemporary America. This book will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists, historians of urban life, and American studies specialists. |
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... status , his life , from the start , was not entirely easy . Although his family was an old one , they were somewhat down in the world— " impecuniously genteel , " as Balt- zell has described it . He was raised by a determined and domi ...
... status in an old traditional community in New England . Impressed with these extremes — Warner's concentration on the subjective ( sta- tus ) elements of social class , and the Lynds ' emphasis on the objective economic aspects of class ...
... status " —or social class , and " class " —what Marxists would call economic class . Compar- ing Warner's study to that of the Lynds , Mills came down on the side of the latter , whom he said had " presented a far superior picture of ...
... status and power . While Lynd and Mills stimulated Baltzell's thinking about class , status , and power , Robert K. Merton , a native Philadelphian like himself , impressed Baltzell more than any other professor at Co- lumbia . Born in ...
... Status , and Party , " which had the most profound and lasting effect upon his thinking . The one mention of Tocqueville's name in a class at Columbia came in the fall of 1947 in a guest lecture by Albert Salomon , a sociologist from ...
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Elite and UpperClass Indexes in Metropolitan | 1 |
Upper Class and Elites | 25 |
The WASPs Last Gasp | 33 |
The American Aristocrat and OtherDirection | 45 |
The Protestant Establishment Revisited | 75 |
UpperClass Clubs and Associations in | 99 |
Social Mobility and Fertility Within an Elite | 111 |
Scientism and the Modern | 123 |
W E B Du Bois and The Philadelphia Negro | 133 |
Reflections on Aristocracy | 165 |
The Search for Community in Modern America | 181 |
Reflections on Two Noisy Ages | 193 |
Cultural Pluralism in Modern America and | 217 |
Social Class in the Oval Office | 241 |
Index | 261 |
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The Protestant Establishment Revisited Edward Digby Baltzell,Howard G. Schneiderman ไม่มีตัวอย่าง - 1999 |