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Taste matters : cultural capital and elites in proximate strategic action fields
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Spence, Crawford, Carter, Chris, Husillos, Javier and Archel, Pablo (2017) Taste matters : cultural capital and elites in proximate strategic action fields. Human Relations, 70 (2). pp. 211-236. doi:10.1177/0018726716649247 ISSN 0018-7267.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018726716649247
Abstract
Recent literature suggests that elites are increasingly fragmented and divided. Yet there is very little empirical research that maps the distinctions between different elite groups. This article explores the cultural divisions that pertain to elite factions in two distinct but proximate Strategic Action Fields. A key insight from the article is that the public sector faction studied exhibits a much broader, more aesthetic set of cultural dispositions than their private sector counterparts. This permits a number of inter-related contributions to be made to literature on both elites and field theory. First, the findings suggest that cultural capital acts as a salient source of distinction between elite factions in different Strategic Action Fields. Second, it is demonstrated how cultural capital is socially functional as certain cultural dispositions are strongly homologous with specific professional roles. Third, the article demonstrates the implications for the structure of the State when two culturally distinct elites are brought together in a new Strategic Action Field.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Accounting Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Elite (Social sciences), Tatse, Auditors , Public administration | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Human Relations | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0018-7267 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 February 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 70 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 211-236 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0018726716649247 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 19 April 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 12 August 2016 | ||||||||
Funder: | Spain. Ministerio de EconomÃa y Competitividad [Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness] (MINECO) | ||||||||
Grant number: | ECO2012-33121 |
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