Fringe nobles and boundary maintenance: An exploration

This article explores a sub-group of elites at the border to non-elites that I shall call fringe nobles. It develops theoretical interest in this group, understood as structural ideal-type. then fleshes out characteristics it with help historical examples relational studies nobles before complementing case-study on study motivation German noble economics students. The habitus group is characterized by taste for purification and field-specific extreme positions – field contemporary economics, seems expressed likely uptake an ultraliberal position. goes explore links position-taking specific feeling threat turning economists politics. concludes plea sociology formulating further empirical questions.