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Sociology already has a well-developed mission to help rising classes fight inequality. Sociology has an equal duty, and already has the tools, to help the dominant classes become responsible leaders of society as a whole. Following Bourdieu’s focus on the composition of capital, we can see that the knowledge-class fraction of the dominant class has the tools to teach the corporate-class fraction of the dominant class – and their children – to become a responsible establishment for the benefit of society as a whole.
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For more on the contrast, and connection, between Mills and Baltzell, see my “The Power Elite and the Philadelphia Gentleman.” Society, Vol. 47, no. 2 (March/April 2010), 138–46.
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Weston, W. Social Science and a Responsible Establishment. Soc 56, 241–245 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-019-00360-x
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