Autore |
Atkinson Will <1983->
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Cambridge, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Polity, , 2015
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Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (159 p.)
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Disciplina |
305.5
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Collana |
Key Concepts
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Soggetto topico |
Social classes
Social conflict
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Soggetto genere / forma |
Electronic books.
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ISBN |
0-7456-8516-1
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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Nota di contenuto |
Key Concepts series; Title page; Copyright page; 1: Introduction; A brief history of 'class'; The fall and rise of 'class'; Plan of the book; Part I: Class Concepts; 2: Class as Exploitation; The general model; The concrete analyses; Marxism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; Contradictory class locations; Marrying Marxism and bourgeois social science; Conclusion; 3: Class as Life Chances; Class, status, party; Class, capitalism and religion; After Weber; The Nuffield School; The Nuffield research agenda; Criticisms of the Nuffield School; Deepening the debt
4: Class as MisrecognitionThe social space; Class habitus and symbolic space; The evolution of cultural domination?; Class-making; The field of power; Four ripostes from the old guard and some responses; Conclusion; 5: Intersections; The feminist critique; Marxism and feminism: from an unhappy marriage to mariticide; Bourdieu and feminism: a happier marriage?; Ethno-racial domination and class; Conceptualizing the relationship; Bourdieu and ethnicity; Conclusion; Part II: Class Struggles; 6: Social (Im)mobility; What is social mobility?; Trends in social mobility; The constant flux
The experience of social mobilityWhy does social immobility persist?; 7: Educational Reproduction; Marxism: education as domination and emancipation; Weberians: secondary effects and rational choices; Bourdieu: permanence through change; Conclusion; 8: Health, Life and Death; Materialism versus culturalism; The 'psychosocial' model: health gradients and status syndromes; Marxism: social murder and greedy bastards; Bourdieu: bringing it all together; The food space and the space of sports; The impact of struggles in the field of power; Conclusion; 9: Politics and Identity
Class politics and class identitiesThe decline of 'class'?; Marxist and Weberian responses; Classed politics and identities; Conclusion; Coda; References; Index; End User License Agreement
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