03573nam 22005415 450 991025271400332120240207123927.09783319554501(electronic bk.)3319554506(electronic bk.)10.1007/978-3-319-55450-1(CKB)4100000000587226(DE-He213)978-3-319-55450-1(MiAaPQ)EBC5056795(EXLCZ)99410000000058722620170922d2017 u| 0engurn|#||||||a|txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierReimagining Class in Australia[electronic resource] Marxism, Populism and Social Science /by Henry Paternoster1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (xi, 279 pages)3-319-55449-2 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Introduction.- Chapter 1:Imagining class in Australian history.- Chapter 2: The New Left and Marxism.- Chapter 3: Connell and Irving’s Class Structure in Australian History.- Chapter 4: Andrew Wells’ Constructing Capitalism and political economy.- Chapter 5: Andrew Metcalfe and working class consciousness -- Chapter 6:The Death of Class and its afterlife -- Conclusion: Reimagining Class.This book re-evaluates New Left and Marxist texts from the 1980s, in order to explore problems facing the study of ‘class’ which have emerged within Australian and international theories. The author contrasts the popular ideas of Connell, Bourdieu and the ‘Death of Class’ thesis, with those of lesser known texts, concluding that no single definition can account for the various historical meanings of class. Instead, loosely following Castoriadis, the concept of class can best be understood as creatively imagined and institutionalised. Paternoster proposes that class is best studied through historical phenomenology, which can be used to link political economy, cultural sociology and anthropological ethnographies. This approach allows the contributions of Marxist and New Left authors to be reintegrated with contemporary theories. Doing so highlights the significance of labour populism, while cautioning against the ahistorical applications of texts such as Boudieu’s Distinction. Reimagining Class in Australia will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, history, political economy and anthropology.Social structureEqualitySocial sciences—PhilosophyPolitical theorySocial Structure, Social Inequalityhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22010Social Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22140Political Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911010Social structure.Equality.Social sciences—Philosophy.Political theory.Social Structure, Social Inequality.Social Theory.Political Theory.305.50994Paternoster Henryauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1059653BOOK9910252714003321Reimagining Class in Australia2507469UNINA