Managerial Elite Research Articles

Graduate Student Journals: Predicaments, Prospects, and Pitfalls

Abstract Within the last few years at least three new graduate student journals of philosophy have begun publication: DIANOIA, KINESIS and TELOS. One of the major factors responsible for such a new cultural phenomenon is the educational explosion triggered by the updated personnel-requirements of the New Industrial State: the « system » can no longer function with a specialized managerial elite and an industrial proletariat which has been (or is in the process of being) displaced by automation and cybernation. Thus the old working class as a reservoir of abstract labor becomes superfluous to the system that now requires highly trained manpower obtainable only through extended education.

The New Managerial Elite in Egypt: A Study of Their Backgrounds and Careers with Significant International Comparisons

The article presents a dissertation abstract titled “The New Managerial Elite in Egypt: A Study of Their Backgrounds and Careers with Significant International Comparisons,” by Mahmoud Sami Kassem,...

The Functional Differentiation of Elites in the Kibbutz

A process of differentiation in the social structure of the communal settlements of Israel (kibbutz) is related to functional differentiation of elites. Expert, managerial, social, and cultural elites emerge. The differentiation first takes place of the role level and later on the personnel level. The processes of differentiation follow predictable lines suggested by parsons. Once differentiated, a hierarchy of elites tends to develop in which specialized elites are at the bottom, dual elites at the middle level, and collectivity oriented elites at the top.