By Mikael Holmqvist
ISBN-10: 0231184263
ISBN-13: 9780231184267
ISBN-10: 0231184271
ISBN-13: 9780231184274
Leader Communities is the sociologist Mikael Holmqvist's time period for locations like Djursholm: the groups the place elites decide to stay, socialize with different elites, and, most significantly, shape households and lift their childrens into destiny elites. Such neighborhoods consecrate population into leaders—that is, they provide their citizens a social setting that imbues individuals with a feeling of social and ethical elevation. by means of idealizing their citizens, chief groups' allegedly improved way of life and personality act as a precept of contrast and legitimation. Holmqvist calls this a consecracy—a society that leads via its charisma, brightness, and radiance, permitting the privileged to pose as an ethical leading edge. Leaders are made—not born—by the tradition, background, traditions, ceremonies, rituals, and associations of where. in accordance with a entire five-year ethnographic research, this booklet is a group research of Djursholm during which the writer ventures contained in the global of the elite to discover the mechanics of social interplay and gear. Leader Communities introduces very important new suggestions to the examine and figuring out of latest elites and gives a troubling research of the ethical, social, and political effects in their aspirations to steer societies.
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