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Aim of this study is to examine the theoretical problems of elite theory. In the first part, it gives an overview about the main elite theories since thirties. In the second part, it analyses the theoretical problems being linked to elite survey. It deals with the question of the plurality of elites, with relationship between democracy and elites and with relation between stratification and elite reproduction.
