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Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite

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內容簡介 The Economist The Times, Best Ideas Books of 2024. 誰在統治英國？菁英如何定義？他們如何影響政治？普通人有機會成為菁英嗎？本書研究19世紀末至今超過19.5萬英國菁英階層的資料，揭開菁英階層權力複製與傳承的關鍵事實。本書以獨特且極為豐富的資料，分析從維多利亞時代到今日的英國菁英：誰能進入菁英圈？他們靠什麼進入？他們的興趣與形象為何？受過哪些教育？又延續了什麼樣的政治傳統？英國的權力核心究竟是由一群保守、彼此關係密切的「好哥兒們菁英」主導——生在特權家庭、在伊頓與牛津一路受禮遇？還是正浮現一批具備不同價值與政治直覺的新興進步菁英？為了找出答案，亞倫・里夫斯（Aaron Reeves）與山姆・弗里德曼（Sam Friedman）分析了自 19 世紀末至今超過 12 萬 5 千名英國菁英的資料。研究核心來自《英國名人錄》（Who’s Who）的歷史資料庫，但兩位作者也查閱家譜紀錄、遺產稅資料，並訪談超過 200 位不同背景的重要人物，以揭開究竟是誰在掌控英國。研究結果顯示：英國社會頂層的流動性比我們以為的還低。雖然女性與黑人、亞裔英國人的代表性有所增加，但出生在最富有的前 1% 家庭的人，如今擠進菁英階層的機率，與 125 年前幾乎沒有差別。真正變化的是菁英展現自己的方式：如今的菁英更努力讓大家相信他們「很普通」。為什麼值得關心？因為我們擁有什麼樣的菁英，會形塑我們的政治生態。學界長期以來都指出，出生家庭與求學背景會影響權力的運作方式，但相關的實證證據向來稀少——現在有了。The Economist, Best Books of 2024The Times, Best Ideas Books of 2024A uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like and look like, where they go to school, and what politics they perpetuate.Are Britain’s power brokers a conservative chumocracy, born to privilege and anointed at Eton and Oxford? Or is a new progressive elite emerging with different values and political instincts? In search of answers, Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman scrutinized the profiles of over 125,000 members of the British elite from the late 1890s to today. At the heart of this meticulously researched study is the historical database of Who’s Who, but Reeves and Friedman also mined genealogical records, examined probate data, and interviewed over 200 leading figures from a wide range of backgrounds to uncover who runs Britain.What they found is that there is less movement at the top than we think. Yes, there has been some progress on including women and Black and Asian Brits, but those born into the top 1 percent are just as likely to get into the elite today as they were 125 years ago. What has changed is how elites present themselves. Today’s elite pedal hard to convince us they are perfectly ordinary.Why should we care? Because the elites we have affect the politics we get. While scholars have long proposed that the family you are born into, and the schools you attend, leave a mark on the exercise of power, the empirical evidence has been thin―until now.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Aaron Reeves is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. An award-winning sociologist who has written extensively on social inequality, he is coeditor of the British Journal of Sociology.Sam Friedman is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the coauthor of The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged and author of Comedy and Distinction: The Cultural Currency of a “Good” Sense of Humour. He is coeditor of the British Journal of Sociology.

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