Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Élite" in Spanish language version.
Elite, of course, does not really mean elite, not in the sense of its seminal use in the 1950s by sociologist C. Wright Mills, who defined elite as a relative handful of people who controlled major corporations, the military and politics. The elite exists now less sociologically and more psychologically. You feel a lack of security and optimism and opportunity believing, therefore, that another group has stolen, or rigged the system to achieve, a disproportionate amount of security, optimism and opportunity.For Republicans, this crafty and pernicious group has long been associated with media and universities and white-wine sippers and, in part because of her helpless air of coldness and condescension, Hillary Clinton (even as she struggles valiantly against those airs). For Democrats, this elite is made up of corporate fat cats and belligerent billionaires and the nouveau riche who might gravitate to Donald Trump-styled condominiums and golf courses.
While there is no consensus about who is an elite, almost everybody seems to know them when they see them.
