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Write short note on Power Elite from a sociological perspective.

  • UPSC 2011, 2009
  • Politics and Society

Power elite is C. Wright Mills' term (The Power Elite, 1956) for the small, interlocking group of people who hold the top positions in the key institutions of a society and take its major decisions. It is a structural, conflict-oriented revision of the classical elite theory of Vilfredo Pareto and Gaetano Mosca, written about the…

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