The contribution of the academic elite to creating political and social change in Algeria

Abstract

This study is concerned with showing the role of the academic elite in political life, its
position and its position in its society, in light of the nature of the tense relationship between the
intellectual and the politician, as well as the loss of confidence in the community in his elites and
their accusations of bias towards power. All these developments made the intellectual live in a selfcrisis before it was interactive with the authority and society. To understand the academic elite
crisis, it is necessary to address the process of marginalization that political systems use against
their intellectuals and the type of relationship that the authority determines its conditions for. All
these variables define for us the contribution of the elites to political and social change and highlight
the most important difficulties and obstacles in reaching their goals