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Sociologist Ralph Pyle discovers that while groups representative of a Protestant establishment have yielded some social, political, and economic power since the 1950s, their influence within American institutions is still proportionally greater than their numbers within the general population.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Theoretical Orientation: Explanations for Persistence and Change in the Establishment Evolution of the Protestant Establishment, 1950-1992 Higher Education and the Establishment Conclusion Appendix A: Gender Representation among the Elite Appendix B: Methodology References Index

About the Author

RALPH E. PYLE is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Reviews

?This carefully written book does a good job of describing the empirical results.?-Social Forces

"This carefully written book does a good job of describing the empirical results."-Social Forces