Conflicts about Class: Debating Inequality in Late Industrialism : a Selection of ReadingsDavid J. Lee, Bryan S. Turner The concept of class and its continuing relevance in the late twentieth century world has been the subject of fierce debate amongst sociologists and the wider community in recent years. The death of class and the advent of the classless society have at various times been proclaimed and denied with equal vigour. |
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... increasingly seen as a hallmark of modern society , by analysts from Habermas and Parsons to Daniel Bell and Zbigniew Brzezinski , and to consultants in business schools who teach the importance of new ' corporate culture ' - as ...
... increasingly clear ( Wacquant 1993 ; cf. Jencks and Petersen 1991 , Townsend et al . 1987 , Mingione 1991 , Engbersen 1989 ) . The existence of long - term joblessness or occupational , marginality among sectors of the populations of ...
... increasingly outcast from society because , bereft of regular and dependable employment , they have little or no ... increasingly ' middle - class ' and increasingly indistinguishable from the categories once regarded as above them ...
Contents
Class metaphors and triumphant individualism 23 2 | 23 |
Are social classes dying? | 42 |
The persistence of classes in postindustrial | 49 |
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