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Open research questions in Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism

26 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,418 Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • This provides a powerful example of how an under-researched liberal-progressive foundation’s power works and how technocratic-liberalism organizes ruling elites (including extreme and far-right Trumpists) who shape and perpetuate the terrain of political polarization, attacks on democracy and the structural inequities of neoliberalism.

    Liberal crisis machine: The Hewlett Foundation in the era of polycrisis philanthropy · 2026 · DOI

  • First, while for Lippmann the elites are the insiders, those who have privileged access to political information, for Ortega the elites are a phenomenon that has more to do with the moral and the psychological (those ‘egregious men’ who make an effort, who do not get carried away) and are not limited to the political sphere, but include other fields, such as culture or the arts.

    Lippmann–Ortega: On the role of elites in a democracy · 2022 · DOI

  • We identify the features of such “business-led cross-national diffusions of CSR”; formulate propositions regarding their conditions, dynamics, and effects; and suggest that further research of this mode of diffusion would advance a more nuanced and balanced understanding of CSR’s globalization.

    The Business-Led Globalization of CSR: Channels of Diffusion From the United States Into Venezuela and Britain, 1962-1981 · 2017 · DOI

  • Rather than what might be expected, a clear contrast between anti-elitist Norwegian and elitist British and French bureaucrats, the comparative analysis of the interviews shows a variation between two different understandings of the elite concept: Norwegians interpret their elite status as delimited to the profession, and British and French bureaucrats define themselves as societal elites.

    What Does it Mean to be Part of the Elite? · 2015 · DOI

  • Poor self–employed people are both “labourers” and “entrepreneurs”; the key macro–level question becomes, not “Do petty–commodity producers have different goals than capitalist entrepreneurs”, but “What resources are lacking, and what obstacles exist, that keep many microentrepreneurs in low–yield activities, with little opportunity to grow their resources?”

    My Business Pays Me: Labourers and Entrepreneurs Among the Self–Employed Poor in Latin America · 2003 · DOI

  • The few studies on the formation of economic groups 2~ indicate that it is illusory to assume that the participation of large industry in the control of eco- nomic life was detrimental to any part of the financial and agricultural sectors. Research ex- plaining its behavior and orientations ~1 is scarce, so that the lines followed by such explanations are necessarily conjectural. In this case neither technique nor capital was lacking.

    The entrepreneurial elites of Latin America · 1966 · DOI

  • The text analyses the question why theories with the concept of a trans-national class in its centre are insufficiently recognized in sociological textbooks.

    Transnational capitalist class · 2022 · DOI

  • Abstract Even though a vast literature has addressed perceptions and beliefs on taxes, progressivity and redistribution, few studies have specifically studied the perceptions of economic elites in this regard.

    No Taxation without Efficiency? Elite Perceptions of Redistribution and Progressivity in Chile · 2022 · DOI

  • Research has therefore not investigated the meanings and morality of elites’ lifestyle choices, particularly from the perspective of the wealthy themselves.

    ‘A very expensive ordinary life’: consumption, symbolic boundaries and moral legitimacy among New York elites1 · 2018 · DOI

  • The reason to why relatively few studies have been made of the economic elite, particularly in Sweden, has amongst others to do with a reputation of it as being hard to study, not at least due to this group's often social closure.

    Att studera den ekonomiska eliten · 2018 · DOI

  • As a contribution to several social sciences, this paper focuses on significant, but under-researched Bilderberg Group as a prominent private network, which serves for annual meeting and coordinating of the Euro-Atlantic elites.

    Bilderberg Group and Transnational Capitalist Class: Recent Trends in Global Elite Club as Vindication of neo-Marxism · 2017 · DOI

  • Fundamental issues such as the pervasiveness of informal work, the recent introduction of flexible employment regimes, and deunionization have not been addressed.

    From Structuralism to Neoliberal Depredation and Beyond: Economic Transformations and Labor Policies in Latin America, 1950–2016 · 2017 · DOI

  • This research illuminates what is a relatively underresearched area—that is, exploration of the complexities, dynamism, and phenomenology of local cooperative adult education and the significance of what it had to offer the development of the labor movement in particular places.

    The Cooperative Movement and the Education of Working Men and Women: Provision by a Local Society in Lincoln, England, 1861–1914 · 2016 · DOI

  • Observers of economic policy-making in developing countries often suggest that consensus and cohesion within technocratic policy elites facilitate the implementation and consolidation of reforms, but have not clearly defined these terms or the relationship between them.

    Cohesion, consensus, and conflict: Technocratic elites and financial crisis in Mexico and Argentina · 2015 · DOI

  • Although scholars have suggested that entrepreneurship in the new economy is rooted in neoliberal ideology, I argue that neoliberalism alone does not account for the ease with which entrepreneurialism has become a dominant discourse.

    The Evolution of Organizational Archetypes: From the American to the Entrepreneurial Dream · 2013 · DOI

  • We conclude by calling for further research into the influence that the transnational elite were able to exert on concrete social reforms in different national frameworks in order to assess to what extent they can be regarded as an “epistemic community in the making”.

    Transnational Experts in Social Reform, 1840–1880 · 2010 · DOI

  • They are everywhere in American history and in the literary canon, just not often discussed as a class, and therefore not understood as part of a class system.

    Introduction to the <i>Teaching About the Upper Class</i> mini-cluster · 2009 · DOI

  • Introduction to the Teaching About the Upper Class mini-cluster Richard Ohmann (bio) and Frinde Maher (bio) The upper class are everywhere in American history and in the literary canon, just not often discussed as a class, and therefore not understood as part of a class system.

    Introduction to the <i>Teaching About the Upper Class</i> mini-cluster · 2009 · DOI

  • But the new interpretations in Discipline and Development need new data, and a main problem with the Korea chapter—and with the whole book—is that many are lacking.

    Discipline and Development: Middle Classes and Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America (review) · 2004 · DOI

  • Many economists and other social analysts attribute much of the social dislocation in evidence today-including but not limited to the stagnation of real incomes-to the erosion of U.

    Beyond the Competitiveness Debate: An Internationalist Agenda · 1994 · DOI

  • Let us simply say that organized private international philanthropy is as yet insufficiently studied in its particulars to make universal judgments upon it.

    Private Philanthropy and Foreign Affairs: The Case of John D. Rockefeller 3rd and Japan · 1984 · DOI

  • If the heart of the problem is defined aF liivate ownership of the coal industry, then the possibility of public ownership, perhaps even limited to a regional basis, is suggested.

    Central Appalachia: A Peripheral Region within an Advanced Capitalist Society · 1976 · DOI

  • 86 Almost one year after the outbreak of hostilities, its consequences remain uncertain.

    CENTRAL AMERICAN INTEGRATION: SPILL‐OVER, SPILL‐AROUND OR ENCAPSULATION? · 1970 · DOI

  • In the first instance, a lack of consensus regarding the roles of the political game is combined with a high rate of mobilization within various voluntary associations (e.

    Center and periphery in developing countries and prototypes of military elites · 1969 · DOI

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