Members Only: Elite Clubs and The Process of Exclusion

by Diana Kendall

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742545563
• ISBN13: 9780742545564
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"