| Description |
1 online resource (202 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; 1 The World of Exclusive Clubs; 2 Exclusion and Snobbery Take a Trip from London to America; 3 How the ""Chosen Few"" Are Chosen; 4 Membership Has Its Privileges; 5 Making Connections: Clubs and Political Networks; 6 Change and Resistance to Change in Membership Policies; 7 Beyond the Walls: The Wider Influence of Elite Clubs; References; Index; About the Author. |
| Summary |
Members Only addresses how exclusive private clubs maintain and perpetuate class-based privilege and racial/ethnic and religious segregation, and how such patterns of social exclusion heighten social inequality. Members Only continues Kendall's study of the upper classes, which began with The Power of Good Deeds, and Framing Class. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-184) and index. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Clubs -- United States.
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Clubs. |
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United States. |
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Elite (Social sciences) -- Social networks -- United States.
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Elite (Social sciences) |
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Social networks. |
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Social capital (Sociology) -- United States.
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Social capital (Sociology) |
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Marginality, Social -- United States.
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Marginality, Social. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kendall, Diana. Members Only : Elite Clubs and The Process of Exclusion. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2008 9780742545564 |
| ISBN |
9781461640103 (electronic book) |
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1461640105 (electronic book) |
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9780742545564 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0742545555 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780742545557 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0742545563 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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