ISBN:
9780582275676
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (316 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Conflicts About Class : Debating Inequality in Late Industrialism
DDC:
305.5
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In recent years there has been growing debate among sociologists about the concept of class and its relevance to the highly industrialised world of the late twentieth century. This book makes available in a single volume all of the key contributions to this debate and takes it a step further with a number of specially commissioned pieces. An editorial introduction which sets the main arguments in context, additional commentary and two alternative conclusions help to make this a unique text for a subject that remains crucial yet highly contentious.〈BR〉〈BR〉
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Editorial Introduction: Myths of classlessness and the ''death'' of class analysis; Part One Class in a Post-Communist World; Overview: Class metaphors and triumphant individualism; Chapter 1 Has class analysis a future?; Chapter 2 Are social classes dying?; Chapter 3 The persistence of classes in post-industrial societies; Chapter 4 The dying of class or of Marxist class theory?; Chapter 5 Succession in the stratification system; Part Two British Sociology and Class Analysis
Description / Table of Contents:
Overview: Class structure, class position and class actionChapter 6 Is the emperor naked?; Chapter 7 The promising future of class analysis; Chapter 8 A reply to Goldthorpe and Marshall; Chapter 9 Gender and class analysis; Chapter 10 Class analysis: Back to the future?; Part Three Researching Class; Overview: Class research and class explanations; Chapter 11 Class in Britain since 1979: Facts, theories and ideologies; Chapter 12 Patterns of capitalist development; Chapter 13 Comparative studies in class structure; Chapter 14 Classes, underclasses and the labour market
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 15 Class and politics in advanced industrial societiesChapter 16 Class inequalities and educational reform in twentieth-century Britain; Chapter 17 Social class and interest formation in post-communist societies; Editorial Conclusions Weak class theories or strong sociology?; Capitalism, classes and citizenship; References; The Editors; Notes on contributors; Index of principal topics; Index of authors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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