Baltzell, 1964), or The Higher Circles (G. William Domhoff, 1970). Today, the authors' precise in- ventories of the social institutions that were thought to sustain the ruling elite seem antique, almost comical. "A person is considered to be a member of the upper class," Domhoff wrote in introducing one such inventory, "if his sister, wife. mother, or mother-in-law attended one of the following schools or belongs to one of the following groups. . . ."
In retrospect, Baltzell...