The Death of Class - Softcover

Pakulski, Jan; Waters, Malcolm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803978391 ISBN 13: 9780803978393

Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

Traditionally class has been the key concept for understanding society, enabling analysts to interpret social conflict and predict the course of social development. Critics argue that it is too crude and incapable of handling the nuances of the new identity politics. Jan Pakulski and Malcolm Waters take the radical position within the current debates that class is a purely historical phenomenon.

This stimulating book argues that concentration on class actually diverts attention from other more central and more morally problematic inequalities. The class perspective has become a political straitjacket which obstructs an accurate understanding of contemporary social, cultural and political processes.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jan Pakulski is the author of Elite Recruitment in Australia (1982); Social Movements (1991); and co-author of Postmodernization (1992). Malcolm Waters is author of Class and Stratification (1990); Modern Sociological Theory (1994); and co-author of Postmodernization (1992).

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Traditionally class has been the key concept for understanding society, enabling analysts to interpret social conflict and predict the course of social development. Critics argue that it is too crude and incapable of handling the nuances of the new identity politics. Jan Pakulski and Malcolm Waters take the radical position within the current debates that class is a purely historical phenomenon.

This stimulating book argues that concentration on class actually diverts attention from other more central and more morally problematic inequalities. The class perspective has become a political straitjacket which obstructs an accurate understanding of contemporary social, cultural and political processes.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0803978391
• ISBN 13: 9780803978393
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 173
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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