President Dwight Eisenhower delivered a farewell address in 1961 that warned of possible threats to democracy and suggested that the large corporations and the military, in cooperation with the government, could exercise too much power. Sociologists refer to this network of groups as the:

d. power elite

Explanation:

According to a different source, these are the options that come with this question:

a. New World Order

b. democratic elite

c. constitutional monarchy

d. power elite

In this speech, President Eisenhower referred to the powerful entities that can affect the ways in which Americans live. These entities are able to hold extreme power, leaving the average person relatively powerless and subject to be manipulated. These entities are known as the "power elite." This term was coined in the book The Power Elite (1956) by sociologist C. Wright Mills.