Description: This data-rich sociological study uses everything from census figures to Who's Who to analyze how, over 125 years, the British elite have used status, elite education, and powerful social networks to shape politics and cultural values. But what happens when elites begin to change--in what they look like, value, and how they position themselves?
Brief description: Aaron Reeves is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. An award-winning sociologist who has written extensively on social inequality, he is coeditor of the British Journal of Sociology.
Review Quotes: As the American sociologist C. Wright Mills said, each generation must recognise its own elite. The work Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman have done here will be indispensable in this quest...[Their book] will be useful both to academics who are researching the elite as well as undergraduates looking for an introduction to understand elite theory and how it might be applied today.--Simon Arthur "Sociological Review" (6/10/2025 12:00:00 AM)