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Beteiligte: Flemmen, Magne
In: Sociology, 46, 2012, 6, S. 1039-1058
veröffentlicht:
SAGE Publications
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Umfang: 1039-1058
ISSN: 0038-0385
1469-8684
DOI: 10.1177/0038038512437899
veröffentlicht in: Sociology
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: SAGE Publications (CrossRef)
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<jats:p>This article seeks to identify the internal divisions within the ‘upper class’ of Norway, defined as comprising different types of property owners, top executives and business managers. Bourdieu’s concepts of social space and forms of capital are applied to construct a social space of the Norwegian economic upper class by subjecting 12 indicators of capital to Multiple Correspondence Analysis. Central issues in the sociology of elites and upper classes are addressed, including the role of educational credentials in upper class reproduction, and the salience of divisions by social origin. The article reveals a maintained division between owners and employees (managers, executives, business professionals) in an age of ‘financialisation’. Furthermore, the divisions established are related to the segmentation of the upper class by occupation and industry.</jats:p>