In political and sociological theory, an elite is a small group of people who control a disproportionate amount of wealth or political power. In general, elite means the more powerful group of people. The selected part of a group that is superior to the rest in terms of ability or qualities or has more privilege than the rest.Elites in the western civilisation are also called the establishment; while previous elites in the Eastern Bloc were called nomenklatura by critics.
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