Class: Critical Concepts, Volume 4John Scott Class and status are both foundational themes in the study of sociology. John Scott brings together the central theoretical contributions to the debate on class and status as aspects of stratification. Using a selection of seminal pieces and commentaries on the classics, it raises central issues, for example the distinction between class and status, which are then examined by leading authorities. |
Contents
The New Working Class David Lockwood | 3 |
Affluence and the British Class Structure | 13 |
David Lockwood | 42 |
A Theory of Political | 59 |
Some Recent | 96 |
The Dominant Ideology Thesis Nicholas Abercrombie | 129 |
Some Remarks on the Study of Workingclass Consciousness | 151 |
129 | 187 |
On Social Classes Nicos Poulantzas | 213 |
Towards a Structural Theory of the Middle Class | 244 |
On the Economic Identification of the New Middle Class | 259 |
Class Boundaries in Advanced Capitalist Societies | 344 |
Varieties of Marxist Conceptions of Class Structure | 388 |
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agents analysis apparatuses argued aspect basic bourgeois capitalist class capitalist mode capitalist production process capitalist society Carchedi's class consciousness class location class position class relations class structure class struggle collective worker commodity concept contradictory locations criteria defined determined discussion Dissensus distinction division of labour dominant class dominant ideology economic ownership elements employees example exploitation fact fraction function of capital global function Goldthorpe Images of Society income individual industrial labour power labour process labour-power locations within class London managers manual workers Marx Marx's Marxist means of production middle class mode of production monopoly capitalism normative occupational perform the function perform the global petty bourgeoisie phase political and ideological Poulantzas Poulantzas's problem production relations productive labour proletariat relations of production relationship reproduction role social classes social division social relations Sociology stratification subordination surplus labour surplus value producing theory tion unproductive value producing process