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9780803978393 Academic Inspection Copy

The Death of Class

  • ISBN-13: 9780803978393
  • Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS
    Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
  • By Jan Pakulski, By Malcolm Waters
  • Price: AUD $148.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 09/05/2007
  • Format: Paperback (234.00mm X 156.00mm) 192 pages Weight: 360g
  • Categories: Social classes [JFSC]
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Traditionally class has been the key concept for understanding society, enabling analysts to interpret social conflict and predict the course of social development. Critics argue that it is too crude and incapable of handling the nuances of the new identity politics. Jan Pakulski and Malcolm Waters take the radical position within the current debates that class is a purely historical phenomenon. This stimulating book argues that concentration on class actually diverts attention from other more central and more morally problematic inequalities. The class perspective has become a political straitjacket which obstructs an accurate understanding of contemporary social, cultural and political processes.
Introduction The Sociologist's Chimera The Shifting Sands of Structure Fickle Formations Subsiding Economic Foundations Crumbling Communities of Fate Cultural Revolutions Choice Politics Life After Class
`A well-organized book, written in an engaging style... certain to stimulate vociferous responses in an area where turgidity has become commonplace' - Political Studies
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