Elites in Latin America / edited by Seymour Martin Lipset and Aldo Solari
1967, 1st edition. New York : Oxford University Press. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper (price-clipped), now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #421573
Physical description; xii, 531 pages, 22 cm. Notes; "The outcome of a Seminar on Elites and Development in Latin America held at the University of Montevideo, Uruguay, in June 1965. The conference was called jointly by the two editors." Includes bibliographical references. Contents; 1. Economic development and the business classes: Values, education, and entrepreneurship / Seymour Martin Lipset -- The new urban groups: the middle classes / Luis Ratinoff -- The industrial elite / Fernando H. Cardoso -- 2. Functional elites: Political elites and political modernization: the crisis of transition / Robert E. Scott -- The military elites / Irving Louis Horowitz -- Religious elites: differentiations and developments in Roman Catholicism / Ivan Vallier -- Cultural elites / Frank Bonilla -- The labor elite: Is it revolutionary? / Henry A. Landsberger -- Contemporary peasant movements / Aníbal Quijano Obregón -- 3. Education and elite formation: the university: Universities and social development / Darcy Ribeiro -- Relations between public and private universities / Luis Scherz-García -- Political socialization in universities / Kenneth N. Walker -- Intellectual identity and political ideology among university students / Glaucio Ary Dillon Soares -- 4. Secondary schools: Secondary education and the development of elites / Aldo Solari -- Education and development: opinions of secondary schoolteachers / Aparecida Joly Gouveia. Subjects; Elite (Social sciences) Latin America. Education Latin America. Elite (Social sciences). Church and society Latin America. Education Latin America. Labor and laborers Latin America. Leadership Latin America. Military Latin America. Politics and government Latin America. Power structure Latin America. Economic development Latin America. Social stratification South America. Elite (Social sciences) Latin America. Latin America Social life & culture.
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