ng to the elite theory, power is found strictly among the members of the upper class. Pluralism, on the other hand, sees "diversity in a society containing many interest groups and in a government containing competing units of power" (McKenna & Feingold, 1989, p. xix). According to the pluralist viewpoint, the fact that there are numerous groups with varying interests competing against one another means that no one group can ever actually hold power for very long. Andrew M. Greeley, a professor of sociology at the University of Arizona, has provided an argument for the pluralist position. Greeley admits that some people have more power than others and that some of the most important political decisions are passed "by a handful of men" (Greeley, 1989, p. 14). However, he does not believe that this elite group actually rules America. Greeley seeks to prove his point by claiming that if there was a power elite, the Vietnam War would have ended long before it did. This is because "the war was bad for business, bad for education, bad for government, bad
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