Members Only: Elite Clubs and The Process of Exclusion (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780742545564)

In Members Only Diana Kendall shows how the upper classes use exclusive clubs as their private domain for conducting business, fostering social networks, and launching the next generation of elites - all beyond the view of outsiders and the media. In her research, Kendall explains how and why club members routinely engage in exclusionary practices that help them accumulate personal power and social capital that is unavailable to outsiders. 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. This book continues Kendall's study of the upper classes, which began with The Power of Good Deeds, and Framing Class.

Author: Diana Kendall
ISBN-10: 0742545563
ISBN-13: 9780742545564
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 06/25/2008
Pages: 198
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.02w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2009