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This proposal aims to show the results of an ongoing research about the perceptions of inequality of the economic elite in the province of Córdoba, Argentina. Its main goal is to contribute to the understanding of recent dynamics in argentinean elites. To that end, we?ve studied the particularities of the historical unfolding of local principles in the exercise of economic and political power (Landa, 1999), and compared data with the work of colleagues in Buenos Aires, the nation?s capitol. One of the main results, was a clear difference in elite?s understanding of their own social standing: although there?s a mix in every case, whilst local elites tend to emphasize ?traditional? dimensions (family origin, symbolic status and so on), national elites put forward meritocratic explanations of themselves. Nevertheless, both points of view were articulated as different ways of setting the ground for an understanding of inequality in moral or normative terms. In this sense, the construction of a justification of social stratification and their place in it by economics elites, referred to moral superiority and even close to the classical notion of ?power? elite.Taking into account the previous statements, we propose a comparison between our own results with those produced by other authors in Chile and Uruguay (Espinosa, 2010; López, 2018; Serna, 2013). These countries constitute the majority of South America?s south cone and have had, with their differences, similarities in terms on historical and socio-political processes (independence, race composition, immigrations, alternation between dictatorship and democracy, economic perspectives, etc.). With this objective, we aim to detect disparities and common aspects in elite´s perception of their own social position, and generate comparative tools for further research.

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