Researching Elites and Power: Theory, Methods, Analyses

Mikael Palme is Associate Professor in Sociology of Education at Uppsala University. Oriented towards the sociology of education and culture, his research includes ethnographic as well as quantitative studies of Swedish secondary and higher education, especially elite education. Along with Donald Broady, he was one of the early introducers of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology in Scandinavia.

Bertrand Réau is a sociologist at Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers. His current research interests focus on economics, cultural practices, job and employment. His recent published papers and works are on the following topics: tourism activities and social consumption of space and place, the globalization and the rearrangement within various social science disciplines around the category of “Studies”, the relationships between tourism and ethnicity in Southeast Asia, the extension of theme parks in the world. He is the author of Les Français et les vacances. Sociologie de l’offre et des pratiques de loisirs (2011). As a co-author, he published, together with Saskia Cousin, Sociologie du Tourisme, (2011) and La sociologie de Charles Wright Mills (2014), together with François Denord.

François Denord is a sociologist and a researcher at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, CESSP, Paris, France). He teaches at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and University of Paris 1 (Sorbonne). His researches focus on the dynamics of the power structure and political ideologies in contemporary France. He is the author of Neo-libéralisme version française (2007, 2016) and the co-author of L’Europe sociale n’aura pas lieu (2009), La sociologie de C. Wright Mills (2014) and Le concert des puissants (2016).