《Managing Elites》是2005年Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc出版的圖書，作者是 Schleef, Debra J。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Managing Elites
- 作者： Schleef, Debra J
- 出版社：Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
- 出版時間：2005年12月
- 頁數：256 頁
- 定價：33.84 美元
- 裝幀：Pap
- ISBN：9780742538498
內容簡介
How does one become a member of an elite profession? Managing Elites examines how elites-in-training contest, rationalize and ultimately enthusiastically embrace their dominant positions in society. Using interviews with 79 law and MBA students, the author argues that elite socialization requires both accommodation and resistance to professional ideologies. Students develop a collective cynicism about elements of their education, learning that their discipline imparts esoteric knowledge - but also claiming that they didn't learn anything. They struggle with the idea that fellow students are all equally intelligent and therefore deserving of elite status, and the continuing emphasis on activities that sort students. Students resist that paths to success promoted by school cultures-investment banking, consulting, or becoming partner in a large law firm. Such cynicism is indeed ultimately revealed to be temporary, as most students end up in full support of these 'jobs of least resistance'. Their critiques do, however, create tensions: between competition and cooperation, between the individual and the collective, and between egalitarianism and elitism. Part of elite socialization is learning to deal with these tensions, or more specifically, to hold contradictory ideals at the same time.
