Elite

An elite in political and sociological theory, is a small group of people who control a disproportionate amount of wealth or political power.

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    “Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.”
    —Rupert Murdoch (b. 1931)