Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 198
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7425-4556-4 • Paperback • June 2008 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
978-1-4616-4010-3 • eBook • June 2008 • $48.50 • (£37.00)
Diana Kendall is professor of sociology at Baylor University and author of Framing Class: Media Representations of Wealth and Poverty in America
Chapter 1 The World of Exclusive Clubs
Chapter 2 Exclusion and Snobbery Take a Trip from London to America
Chapter 3 How the "Chosen Few" Are Chosen
Chapter 4 Membership Has Its Privileges
Chapter 5 Making Connections: Clubs and Political Networks
Chapter 6 Change and Resistance to Change in Membership Policies
Chapter 7 Beyond the Walls: The Wider Influence of Elite Clubs
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.
— Choice Reviews, July 2009