Pareto ’ s Theory of Elites : Circulation or Circularity ?
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La sociología de Pareto es inseparable de su perspectiva económica, en especial su célebre teoría de las élites. Su teoría de los mercados monopólicos requiere factores extra-económicos, por lo tanto, construyó una teoría sociológica de las élites. Aquí se demuestra que su teoría sociológica general de las élites es vacua, ya que la clase de las elites es co-extensiva respecto de la población total. Esta teoría es significativa sólo para las élites económicas en mercados no competitivos. resumen: We argue that Pareto’s sociology is inseparable from his economics, with special attention to his celebrated theory of elites. His theory of monopolistic markets requires extra-economic factors to be determinate, hence necessitates a sociological theory of elites. His general sociological theory of elites is shown to be vacuous, since the class of elites is found to be coextensive with the total population. This theory is meaningful only for economic elites in non-competitive markets Teoría de las Élites de Pareto: ¿Circulación o Circularidad? * Emérito de la Wright State University. Dr. por la Universidad de Pittsburgh. En la actualidad es profesor de Ciencias Sociales en la Mercy College. Sus escritos incluyen “Marx, Engels y Anti-Dühring”, Political Studies, 1983, “La ‘brecha generacional’ reconsiderado”, en Yedla C. Simhadri (ed), Global Youth, Peace, and Development: The Role of Science and Technology in Contemporary Society, Ajanta Delhi, 1991, y “Crítica de la Teoría del Estado pretoriano”, en Giuseppe Caforio (ed), The Sociology of the Military, Elgar, Cheltenham, 1998.
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