Class

Höfundur: Will Atkinson (Útgáfa: 2)
Class

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Class is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts in social science, but also a topic which has fascinated, amused, incensed and galvanized the general public. But what exactly is a ‘class’? How do sociologists study and measure it, and how does it correspond to everyday understandings of social difference in the twenty-first century?      In a time when inequality has dramatically returned to the social scientific and political agenda, this accessible and lively book explores these questions and more.

It takes readers through the key theoretical traditions in class research, the major controversies that have shaken the field and the continuing effects of class difference, class struggle and class inequality across a range of domains. This new edition covers the latest research and scholarship and includes extended discussions of race, the rise of national populism, and the reconfigurations of class in a global age.

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Útgefandi
Polity
ISBN
9781509557202
Print ISBN
9781509557189
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
2
Höfundar
Will Atkinson
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2023-11-28
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
10
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Cover
  • Series Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • 1 Introduction
  • A brief history of ‘class’
  • The fall and rise of ‘class’
  • Plan of the book
  • Part I Class Concepts
  • 2 Class as Exploitation
  • The general model
  • The concrete analyses
  • Marxism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
  • Contradictory class locations
  • Marrying Marxism and bourgeois social science
  • Conclusion
  • 3 Class as Life Chances
  • Class, status, party
  • Class, capitalism and religion
  • After Weber
  • The Nuffield School
  • The Nuffield research agenda
  • Criticisms of the Nuffield School
  • Deepening the debt
  • 4 Class as Misrecognition
  • The social space
  • Class habitus and symbolic space
  • Later questions and confirmations
  • Class-making
  • The field of power
  • Four ripostes from the old guard and some responses
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Intersections
  • The feminist critique
  • Marxism and feminism
  • Bourdieu and feminism
  • Ethno-racial domination and class
  • Marx and Marxism on colonialism and race
  • Weber and Weberians on class and ethnicity/race
  • The turn to Bourdieu
  • Conclusion
  • Part II Class Struggles
  • 6 Social (Im)mobility
  • What is social mobility?
  • Trends in social mobility
  • The experience of social mobility
  • Why does social immobility persist?
  • 7 Educational Inequality
  • Marxism: education as domination and emancipation
  • Weberians: secondary effects and rational choices
  • Bourdieu: permanence through change
  • Conclusion
  • 8 Health, Life and Death
  • Materialism versus culturalism
  • The ‘psychosocial’ model: health gradients and status syndromes
  • Marxism: social murder and greedy bastards
  • Bourdieu: bringing it all together
  • Conclusion
  • 9 Politics and Identity
  • Class politics and class identities
  • The decline of ‘class’?
  • Marxist responses
  • Weberian responses
  • Bourdieu: Classed politics and identities
  • Conclusion
  • 10 Globalization, Space and Place
  • Marxism and uneven development
  • Globalization and class
  • Harvey and the ‘spatial fix’
  • Bourdieu on class, space and globalization
  • Gentrification
  • Urban marginality
  • Conclusion
  • Coda
  • References
  • Index
  • End User License Agreement