Class

Class

by Joyce, Patrick

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In recent years, the concept of class has come under increasing scrutiny, as a means of explaining both the present and the past. Economic and social change, together with profound changes in intellectual outlook have called into question the utility of the class concept. Furthermore, feminism has led us to reconsider the whole notion of class identity. Can class viably explain the present? Did it ever provide an adequate explanation of the past? How did concepts of class develop? What is the l…

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  • Full title :Class / edited by Patrick Joyce.

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In recent years, the concept of class has come under increasing scrutiny, as a means of explaining both the present and the past. Economic and social change, together with profound changes in intellectual outlook have called into question the utility of the class concept. Furthermore, feminism has led us to reconsider the whole notion of class identity. Can class viably explain the present? Did it ever provide an adequate explanation of the past? How did concepts of class develop? What is the language of class? A variety of writings are drawn upon here to suggest answers to these questions, to provide a balanced survey of thought on class, from Marx and Weber to the postmodern thought of the present day, and to look beyond this towards the very future of the idea of class.

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  • Publication Date:1995.

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  • Description:ix, 368 pages ; : 22 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0192892525, 9780192892522
  • oclc:ocm32241656
  • LC Classification:HT605
  • Dewey Decimal:305.5

Table of Contents

1. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on Class -- 2. Max Weber on Class -- 3. Ferdinand Toennies on Estates and Classes -- 4. The Development of the Classical Inheritance / Rosemary Crompton -- 5. An Inheritance Reaffirmed: Weber / Howard Newby et al. -- 6. An Inheritance Reaffirmed: Marx / Ellen Meiksins Wood -- 7. Sociology and Postmodernity / Zygmunt Bauman -- 8. Sociology and the Study of Society / Alain Touraine -- 9. The End of the Social / Jean Baudrillard -- 10. Fractured Identities / Donna Haraway -- 11. The Reality of Representation and the Representation of Reality / Pierre Bourdieu -- 12. Bourdieu on 'Habitus' / John B. Thompson -- 13. Giddens on 'Structuration' / John B. Thompson -- 14. The Concept of Structure / Anthony Giddens -- 15. The Incarnation of Social Structure / Wes Sharrock and Rod Watson -- 16. Castoriadis on the Imaginary Institution of Society / John B. Thompson -- 17. The Social Imaginary / Cornelius Castoriadis.

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Subjects

Classes sociales Social Class Social classes sociale klassen

Writers

Joyce, Patrick

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