Class Analysis and Social TransformationAcademic 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. |
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The travails of class theory | 3 |
The limits to class consciousness | 23 |
Economic inequality and social class | 43 |
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ability approach to class argued arguments Beck Bourdieu's Britain British social capitalist career cent Chapter claims class analysis class consciousness class cultures class formation class identities class positions class relations class schema class structure class theory collective class concept of class concerns contemporary critical Crompton cultural capital David Lockwood debate defined developed distinction earned economic inequality élite emphasized empirical employers forms gender Giddens Goldthorpe's hierarchy historical household idea of class important income individual instance intellectual issues kinds labour market linked Lockwood London male manual labour manual workers Marxist middle class occupational group organization organizational perspective political post-Fordism problems processes professional and managerial recent recognize relationship relative response role salience Saunders Savage sector service class skills social change social class social mobility social sciences society sociology stratification Table tend theoretical tion tradition Weber Weberian white-collar white-collar workers women working-class culture