Identity, Culture and Globalization, Yitzhak Sternberg, BRILL, 2002, ISBN 978-90-04-12873-6, ... An elite is defined as a relatively small group of people that wields inordinate power and influence. In contemporary society, we can identify several elites, including the political elite (the government, members of parliament and various high-ranking politicians within political parties); the business elite (the owners and managers of large-scale economic enterprises); the administrative elite (holders of top positions in the state administration) and the military elite (the holders of top positions in the military and security forces) ...
Totalitarian dictatorship and autocracy, Carl Joachim Friedrich, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Praeger, 1956, ... an elite is defined as those 'with most power in a group'; it is contrasted with the 'mid-elite' who are those 'with less power' and the class which has 'least' power ...
Musical Ritual in Mexico City: From the Aztec to Nafta, Mark Pedelty, pp. 260-261, University of Texas Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-292-70231-8, ... billboards emblazoned with blonde women ... pale telivision news anchors to the constant and not-so-subtle associations made between belleza (beauty) and whiteness throughout Mexican society ... Mexican television actors and pop stars are generally draw n from the relatively small, predominantly white upper class ...
Pakistan: Social and Cultural Transformations in a Muslim Nation, Mohammad A. Qadeer, pp. 229, Taylor & Francis, 2006, ISBN 978-0-415-37566-5, ... It was initially used by Dr Mahboob-ul-Haque, the chief economist of Pakistan's Planning Commission in 1968 to describe the pattern of economic distribution in the country, namely 22 families owned 66 percent of industrial, 70 percent of of insurance, and 80 percent of banking assets. It points to the economic elite of the modern sector who largely emerged after independence ...
Political Elites, Geraint Parry, ECPR Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-9547966-0-0, ... The inner core of the educational elite will be small – a point confirmed in the British instance by any measuring rod used, whether the 6 per cent of the population who attend public schools or the 5 per cent who attend university ...
