On the issue of the functional theory of elites: losses and possibilities of a new approach | Tomsk State University Journal of Cultural Studies and Art History. 2021. № 43. DOI: 10.17223/22220836/43/11

On the issue of the functional theory of elites: losses and possibilities of a new approach

XX-XXI centuries. The author analyzes the need to change the concept of the elite as a factor of social practice, investigates the prerequisites for a retreat from the traditions of interpreting the elite in the problem field of classical sociology. The thesis about the fruitfulness of the study of the elite in the discourse of such trends of its development as sociologization, rationalization, and sub-jectivation is outlined. The explanatory potential of the functional and functionalist concepts of the elites is compared.

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elite, power, meritocracy, rationalization, sociologization, subjectivation of elite criteria, values, resource of an object, charisma, “massification” of elitism criteria, “self-assignment” to the elite, elite identification

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Name	Organization	E-mail
Ryabchenko Daniil O.	National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University	info@latat.org

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