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Who are the elites ? Discuss their roles in bringing social transformation.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Politics and Society in India

The elite are the minority who occupy the top positions in any institutional order and whose decisions or example shape the life-chances of the many. Vilfredo Pareto located them in superior personal capacity, Gaetano Mosca in organisation, C. Wright Mills in institutional command. Whether they transform society or merely reproduce their own position is an…

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  • Who are the elites — the concept
  • Elites as agents of social transformation
  • The limits — elites as obstacles
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