elite

Examples of elite in the following topics:

• White Society in the South

  • In his study of Edgefield County, South Carolina, Orville Vernon Burton classified white society into the poor, the yeoman middle class, and the elite.
  • A clear line demarcated the elite, but according to Burton, the line between poor and yeoman was never very distinct.
  • Yeomen were "self-working farmers," distinct from the elite because they worked their land themselves alongside any slaves they owned.
  • This plantation-owning elite, known as "slave magnates," was comparable to the millionaires of the following century .
  • Third, many small farmers with a few slaves and yeomen were linked to elite planters through the market economy.

• "Poor Whites"

  • In his study of Edgefield County, South Carolina, Orville Vernon Burton classified white society into three groups: the poor, the yeoman middle class (also called the plain folk of the Old South), and the elite.
  • A clear line demarcated the elite, but according to Burton, the line between poor and yeoman was less distinct.
  • They were "self-working farmers," distinct also from the elite because they physically labored on their land alongside any slaves they owned.
  • That is, plain folk soldiers had their own reasons for fighting, apart from those reasons held by the elite.

• Propaganda and the Mass Media

  • They argue that such a portrayal was often used as a means to silence voices critical of elite interests.
  • According to Mills, the eponymous "power elite" are those that occupy the dominant positions, in the dominant institutions (military, economic and political) of a dominant country, and their decisions (or lack of decisions) have enormous consequences, not only for the U.S. population but, "the underlying populations of the world."
  • These two models—the propaganda and the "power elite" conceptualization—evidence how mass media can be used to reinforce the powerful's positions of power and interests.
  • Evaluate the impact of mass media as propaganda, particularly in terms of the "power elite"

• The Sicán

  • Tumbaga, a thin sheet of low-karat gold alloy, was used to wrap ceramic vessels for the lower elites, while the upper elites had high-karat gold alloys.
  • Other grave goods of the elite included:
  • All of these items required hours of labor and precious supplies, highlighting the power of the elite.
  • The pyramidal monumental mounds were used as both burials sites for the elite and places of worship and ritual.
  • Perhaps the ancestor cult and aggrandizing of the elites caused too much resentment.

• Plain Folk of the Old South

  • The nostalgic view of the South emphasized the elite planter class of wealth and refinement who controlled large plantations and numerous slaves.
  • In his study of Edgefield County, South Carolina, Orville Vernon Burton classifies white society into the poor, the yeoman middle class, and the elite.
  • A clear line demarcated the elite, but according to Burton, the line between poor and yeoman was less distinct.
  • Yeomen were "self-working farmers,” distinct from the elite because they physically labored on their land alongside any slaves they owned.
  • Though Southern society was dominated by a planter elite, "Plain Folk" supported secession to defend their families, homes, notions of liberty, and beliefs in racial hierarchies.

• High and Low Culture

  • The distinction between the the "high" culture of the elite and the "low" culture of the masses has become increasingly blurred over time.
  • It is the culture of an elite such as the aristocracy or intelligentsia, and is contrasted with the low culture of the less well-educated, barbarians, Philistines, or the masses.
  • Reevaluation of mass culture in the 1970s and 1980s has revealed significant problems with the traditional view of mass culture as degraded and elite culture as uplifting.
  • The exquisite frescoes inside the Sistine Chapel illustrate an example of the "high culture" of the elite aristocracy of the times.

• Oligarchy

  • An oligarchy is a form of government in which power effectively rests with a small elite segment of society.
  • An oligarchy is a form of government in which power effectively rests with a small elite segment of society distinguished by royalty, wealth, family, military, or religious hegemony.
  • In de jure oligarchies, an elite group is given power by the law.
  • One example of this is a corporate oligarchy, or corporatocracy—a system in which power effectively rests with a small, elite group of inside individuals, sometimes from a small group of educational institutions, or influential economic entities or devices, such as banks, commercial entities, lobbyists that act in complicity with, or at the whim of the oligarchy, often with little or no regard for constitutionally protected prerogative.

• The Colonial Elite

  • In New England and the mid-Atlantic colonies, the elite were wealthy farmers or urban merchants; in the South, they were wealthy planters.
  • As in New England, the majority of the elite in the Middle Colonies were merchants.
  • The Southern elite consisted of wealthy planters in Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina.
  • Summarize the central economic activities of the elites throughout the colonies

• Social Classes in the Colonies

  • The class system of the plantation South included the plantation masters and their families and the plantation elite.
  • The southern region had very few urban places apart from Charleston, where a merchant elite maintained close connections with nearby plantation society.

• A Communications Revolution

  • In the early 1800s, newspapers were largely meant for the elite.
  • They generally took two forms: mercantile sheets intended for the business community, which contained ship schedules, wholesale product prices, advertisements, and some foreign news; and political newspapers, which were controlled by political parties or their editors as a means of sharing their views with elite stakeholders.