ISBN:
9780203857205
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (166 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge revivals
Parallel Title:
Print version Memories of Class
DDC:
305.509
Keywords:
Social status History
;
Social classes History
Abstract:
First published in 1982, Professor Bauman's discussion of the mechanism of class formation and institutionalisation of class conflict argues that our understanding of changes in social and political structure has been hindered by the freezing of concepts of class in the ice-age of industrial society. He investigates the impact of historical memory on the early transformation of rank into a class society, and on the current confusion in the analysis of the 'crisis of late-industrial society'. The book traces the formation of a class society back to the patterns of 'surveillance power' and contr
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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