Diversity in the Power Elite: How It Happened, Why It Matters

by G. William Domhoff and Richard L. Zweigenhaft

Book Overview

This book looks systematically at the extent to which Jews, women, African Americans, Latinos, Asians and gay men and lesbians have entered the higher circles of power that constituted what sociologist C. Wright Mills called the power elite. It examines why and how the power elite has diversified, the pathways taken by those who have entered the power elite, and the effect this diversification has had on the way power works in the United States.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742536998
• ISBN13: 9780742536999
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"