Class

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Paperback | 6 April 1995

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In recent years, the concept of class has come under increasing scrutiny, as a means of explaining both the present and the past. The post-industrial class has superseded the manual working class, and new forms of industrial management have broken up more traditional hierarchies and outlooks. Furthermore, feminism has now brought into question the whole concept of a class identity. Can class explain the present? Did it ever provide an adequate explanation of the past? How did concepts of class develop? What is the language of class? A variety of writings are drawn upon here to suggest answers to these questions, to provide a balanced survey of thought on class, from Marx and Weber to the present day, and to look beyond this towards the very future of class. The scope of the book is remarkable, featuring contributions by E.P. Thompson, Richard Hoggart, Jean Baudrillard, Rosemary Crompton, Howard Newby, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Michel Foucault, Zygmunt Bauman, Alain Touraine, Donna
Haraway, John B. Thompson, Anthony Giddins, Cornelius Castoriadis, Gareth Stedman Jones, Joan W. Scott, Ira Katznelson, William H. Sewell, Jr., Martin J. Weiner, and many others.

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`The collection offers a valuable insight into the problems and an interesting choice of views on the various facets of class.' the Journal of Indo-European Studies

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Introduction	p. 3
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on Class	p. 21
Max Weber on Class	p. 31
Ferdinand Toennies on Estates and Classes	p. 40
The Development of the Classical Inheritance	p. 43
An Inheritance Reaffirmed: Weber	p. 55
An Inheritance Reaffirmed: Marx	p. 64
Sociology and Postmodernity	p. 74
Sociology and the Study of Society	p. 83
The End of the Social	p. 90
Fractured Identities	p. 95
The Reality of Representation and the Representation of Reality	p. 99
Bourdieu on 'Habitus'	p. 101
Giddens on 'Structuration'	p. 103
The Concept of Structure	p. 106
The Incarnation of Social Structure	p. 108
Castoriadis on the Imaginary Institution of Society	p. 113
The Social Imaginary	p. 117
The Making of Class	p. 131
Class and Class Struggle	p. 133
Levels of Class Formation	p. 142
Class, 'Experience', and Politics	p. 150
Language, Gender, and Working-Class History	p. 154
A People and a Class	p. 161
Ranciere and the Worker	p. 167
The Nights of Labor	p. 172
A Post-Materialist Rhetoric for Labour History	p. 174
Habermas and the 'Public Sphere'	p. 186
'Society' and the 'Public Sphere' in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Germany	p. 192
Governmentality	p. 201
The Emergence of Liberal Governmentality, I	p. 204
The Emergence of Liberal Governmentality, II	p. 208
The Mobilization of Society	p. 209
Towards a Critical Sociology of Freedom	p. 213
Gendering 'the Social'	p. 225
The Class Structure of the 'Classic Slum'	p. 236
'Them' and 'Us'	p. 239
Symbols, Codes and Cultures	p. 249
The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt	p. 262
'Rebelling against the Work we Love'	p. 271
The Language of Orders in Early Modern Europe	p. 292
The Failure of the Bourgeoisie	p. 298
Gender and the Middle Class	p. 302
The Making of the British Middle Class: An Elite-Led Class	p. 316
Narratives of Class	p. 322
Meanings of Class	p. 332
War and the Language of Class	p. 335
The State and the Language of Class	p. 343
Select Reading List	p. 349
Biographical Notes	p. 353
Acknowledgements	p. 359
Index	p. 361
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