Class / / Will Atkinson

• Autore: Atkinson Will <1983->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Polity, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (159 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.5
• Soggetto topico: Social classes; Social conflict
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Class
• ISBN: 0-7456-8516-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910157453503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Key concepts.