| Titre | Différenciation et mécanismes d'intégration de la classe dirigeante. L'image sociale de l'élite d'après le Who's who in France | |
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| Auteur | Olgierd Lewandowski | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1974, 15-1 | |
| Page | 43-73 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Olgierd Lewandowski : Differentiation within and Integration into the Ruling Class: The Social Profile of the Elite on the Basis of Persons Chosen from Who's who in France.
This article draws a picture of the 1968 French elite based on a study of 1500 persons chosen at random from among the 20,000 listed in Who's Who in France. By comparing different sectors according to the variables of a member's social origins, his scholastic level and his birthplace (for Parisians as a subgroup), we first notice that a compensation exists between these three. For example, one sector is ahead in terms of social origins, another in terms of scholastic background, yet a third in terms of nativity at Paris. However, members of Parliament were at the bottom of all hierarchies. What's more, those persons who change sectors usually have a social origin better than that in the sector they are leaving and an educational level higher than that in the sector they are entering. We can partly explain most intersector transfers as a matter of the more and more frequent use of «scholastic capital» in the control of economic activity. Because of the development of different sectors from crafts into industries, the growing role of the means of production in relationship to work has involved an increasing use of intellectual capital in the control of the means of production. Moreover, this development augments the interdependence of different sectors, the concentration of power in each sector and the homogenization of the leaders of the different sectors. In France, this process of integration at the top is linked to the strong concentration of activity in Paris. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rfsoc_0035-2969_1974_num_15_1_2235 |
