Cultural intelligence in liberal elite institutions: what we can learn from pareto
Cultural intelligence in liberal elite institutions: what we can learn from pareto
What would Pareto make of today’s relatively liberal elite institutions? This chapter suggests he may have viewed them harshly through his lens of demagogic plutocracy; he would have discerned that his descriptive sociology’s chief implicit ideal of open, balanced elites has been pushed further beyond reach today than it was in previous decades, due to ongoing liberal cultural revolution whereby an excess of the ‘class one residues’ now sets the cultural tone and has purged the ‘class two residues’ to extents unimaginable to earlier generations. The author sincerely hopes Pareto would agree that there are, however, clear pathways towards solutions. Having sketched out the problem of cultural unintelligence which the institutional ascendancy of the class one residues has created, the chapter concludes by illustrating how the century of management professionalisation since Pareto has availed liberal elite institutions of techniques by which they might yet become more culturally intelligent and tolerant along the liberal-conservative cultural axis, thereby improving themselves and promoting cultural peace.
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Marshall, Alasdair
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Adair-Toteff, Christopher
2 October 2023
Marshall, Alasdair
93aa95a2-c707-4807-8eaa-1de3b994b616
Adair-Toteff, Christopher
Marshall, Alasdair
(2023)
Cultural intelligence in liberal elite institutions: what we can learn from pareto.
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Adair-Toteff, Christopher
(ed.)
Vilfredo Pareto's Contributions to Modern Social Theory: A Centennial Appraisal.
1 ed.
Routledge, .
(doi:10.4324/9781003305514-3).
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What would Pareto make of today’s relatively liberal elite institutions? This chapter suggests he may have viewed them harshly through his lens of demagogic plutocracy; he would have discerned that his descriptive sociology’s chief implicit ideal of open, balanced elites has been pushed further beyond reach today than it was in previous decades, due to ongoing liberal cultural revolution whereby an excess of the ‘class one residues’ now sets the cultural tone and has purged the ‘class two residues’ to extents unimaginable to earlier generations. The author sincerely hopes Pareto would agree that there are, however, clear pathways towards solutions. Having sketched out the problem of cultural unintelligence which the institutional ascendancy of the class one residues has created, the chapter concludes by illustrating how the century of management professionalisation since Pareto has availed liberal elite institutions of techniques by which they might yet become more culturally intelligent and tolerant along the liberal-conservative cultural axis, thereby improving themselves and promoting cultural peace.
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