Understanding class

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"What are the causes of inequality in capitalist society? In Understanding Class, leading left sociologist Erik Olin Wright returns to the fundamental concept underlying this question, and interrogates the different theories and paradigms that have arisen for understanding it. Beginning with class analysis in Marx and Weber, proceeding through the writings of Charles Tilly and others, and finally examining how class struggle and class compromise play out in contemporary society, Understanding C…

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Full title :Understanding class / Erik Olin Wright.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Verso
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 260 pages ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781781689455, 1781689458, 9781781689202, 1781689202
oclc:ocn895727360
LC Classification:HT609
Dewey Decimal:305.5

From grand paradigm battles to pragmatist realism : towards an integrated class analysis -- Frameworks of class analysis. The shadow of exploitation in Weber's class analysis ; Metatheoretical foundations of Charles Tilly's Durable Inequality ; Class, exploitation, and economic rents : reflections on Sørensen's "Toward a sounder basis for class analysis" ; Michael Mann's two frameworks of class analysis -- Class in the twenty-first century. Occupations as micro-classes : David Grusky and Kim Weeden's reconfiguration of class analysis ; The ambiguities of class in Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century ; The death of class debate ; Is the precariat a class? -- Class struggle and class compromise. Beneficial constraints : beneficial for whom? ; Working class power, capitalist class interests, and class compromise ; Class struggle and class compromise in the era of stagnation and crisis.

Subjects

Classes sociales Kapitalism Klassenkampf Klassentheorie Klasskillnader Marxian school of sociology Marxistisk sociologi POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions Social Class Social classes SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes Sociala Klasser Sociologie marxiste Soziale Klasse