Repositioning class : social inequality in industrial societies
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Repositioning class : social inequality in industrial societies
Sage Publications, 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index
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Description
In recent years the death of social class has been regularly reported - such pronouncements have been as exaggerated as they were untimely. Social class is as important to the understanding of late twentieth-century industrial societies as it was to their early twentieth-century counterparts. This book aims to explain why class has persisted as such a potent social force.
In Repositioning Class Gordon Marshall uses the comparative study of British experiences in relation to those of the United States, Scandinavia and the former communist countries of Eastern Europe. Also examined are cases where Britain provides the exclusive focus for discussion either about class itself, or about how sociologists might most usefully pursue class analysis in the future. Specific issues include: the question of meritocracy, the relationship between class and gender, arguments about proletarianization, collective identities and the nature of the so-called underclass in advanced societies.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Class and Class Analysis in the 1990s
PART ONE: SOCIAL THEORY
Distributional Struggle and Moral Order in a Market Society
The Promising Future of Class Analysis
A Response to Recent Critiques
PART TWO: METHOD AND MEASUREMENT
Classes in Britain
Marxist and Official
Social Class and Underclass in Britain and the USA
Class, Gender and the Asymmetry Hypothesis
PART THREE: SOCIAL MOBILITY
Proletarianization in the British Class Structure?
Intergenerational Social Mobility in Communist Russia
Intergenerational Class Processes and the Asymmetry Hypothesis
PART FOUR: SOCIAL JUSTICE
Social Class and Social Justice
Was Communism Good for Social Justice? A Comparative Analysis of the Two Germanies
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