Look up elite or elitism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Elitism is the notion that individuals who form an elite — a select group with desirable...

Italian school of elitism, which influenced subsequent elite theory in the Western tradition. The outlook of the Italian school of elitism is based on two...

The Wee Shu Min elitism controversy occurred in October 2006 in Singapore. Wee Shu Min, daughter of parliament member Wee Siew Kim and a then eighteen-year-old...

Ethnocentrism in social science and anthropology—as well as in colloquial English discourse—means to apply one's own culture or ethnicity as a frame of...

NPR, full name National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator...

themselves with a specific mission or athletic ties. Some have criticized the elitism associated with these groups. In certain instances, these ivory-tower universities...

associated with academic excellence, highly selective admissions, and social elitism. The term was used as early as 1933, and it became official in 1954 following...

Corps of the state. The Grandes écoles have been criticised for alleged elitism, producing many if not most of France's high-ranking civil servants, CEOs...

biography of Jackie Gleason, The Great One. His final book was In Defense of Elitism, a work of social and cultural criticism that argued that societies and...

Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis. It originally covered alternative...