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Members Only: Elite Clubs and The Process of Exclusion: Elite Clubs and The Process of Exclusion
Author(s): Diana Kendall (Author)
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publication Date: 25 Jun. 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 198 pages
- ISBN-10: 0742545563
- ISBN-13: 9780742545564
Book Description
Members Only addresses how exclusive private clubs maintain and perpetuate class-based privilege and racial/ethnic and religious segregation, and how such patterns of social exclusion heighten social inequality. Members Only continues Kendall’s study of the upper classes, which began with The Power of Good Deeds, and Framing Class.
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Review
Kendall illuminates how membership is controlled by and envelops the privileged few with a capacity to exercise social, cultural, and political capital. Her distinctive treatment of these assets fleshes out specific details so well that students of inequality are guaranteed satisfaction. Highly recommended.
About the Author
Diana Kendall is professor of sociology at Baylor University and author of Framing Class: Media Representations of Wealth and Poverty in America
