Class analysis and social transformation
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Class analysis and social transformation
(Sociology and social change / series editor, Alan Warde)
Open University Press, 2000
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-177) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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Description
". . . a tour de force. The style is engaging, quite an achievement for such a complex analysis." - Professor Steve Edgell, University of Salford
* Do we now live in a classless society?
* How is it possible for us to live in a more class-divided society when people's awareness of class is relatively weak?
* What implications do contemporary social and cultural transformations have for understanding the relevance of social class?
Academic discussions about social class tend to be increasingly specialized and have found it difficult to unpack processes of cultural as well as social change. This book breathes new life into class analysis by showing how contemporary social and cultural transformations are related to the restructuring of class relations. Using the British experience as a case study, Mike Savage gives a definitive account of debates on class and finds evidence of both the breaking down and persistence of class divisions. He employs a variety of disciplinary perspectives to provide a comprehensive account of the main features of contemporary social change. Particular attention is paid to arguments developed by Beck and Giddens concerning individualization, and he shows how the redrawing of individual relations is tied in to the remaking of social class in complex and largely unrecognized ways. Class Analysis and Social Transformation brings together recent empirical research on class with topical theoretical debates on social and cultural change. It offers a compelling interpretation of the field in its entirety and an authoritative and accessible text for social science students wishing to learn about the debates on class analysis.
Table of Contents
Series editor's foreword
Preface and acknowledgements
The travails of class theory
The limits to class consciousness
Economic inequality and social class
Social mobility and the 'Nuffield paradigm'
Individualization and cultural distinction
The organizational restructuring of class relations
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
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ISBN 9780335193288
Description
Academic discussions about social class tend to be increasingly specialized and have found it difficult to unpack processes of cultural as well as social change. This book breathes new life into class analysis by showing how contemporary social and cultural transformations are related to the restructuring of class relations. Using the British experience as a case study, Mike Savage gives a definitive account of debates on class and finds evidence of both the breaking down and persistence of class divisions. He employers a variety of disciplinary perspectives to provide a comprehensive account of the main features of contemporary social change. Particular attention is paid to arguments developed by Beck and Giddens concerning individualization, and he shows how the redrawing of individual relations is tied in to the remaking of social clasps in complex and largely unrecognized ways. This book brings together recent empirical research on class with topical theoretical of the field in its entirety and it should be of interest to students of social science wishing to learn about the debates on class analysis.
Table of Contents
- The travails of class theory
- the limits to class consciousness
- economic inequality and social class
- social mobility and the "Nuffield paradigm"
- individualisation and cultural distinction
- the organizational restructuring of class relations.
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