Renewing class analysis / edited by Rosemary Crompton ... [and others]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crompton, Rosemary.

Series:

Sociological review monograph ; no. 49.

Sociological review monograph

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes--United States.

Social classes.

United States.

Social classes--Great Britain.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell ; North Staffordshire, [U.K.] : The Sociological Review, [2000]

Summary:

This collection advances contemporary debates in class analysis by offering a range of new empirical research on emergent forms of social stratification and by re-thinking the intersection between economic change, social polarization, and the remaking of class relations.It is edited by leading sociologists of class, and brings together outstanding British and international writers.

Contents:

Introduction: the state of class analysis / Rosemary Crompton and John Scott

Employment relations and class structure / Aage B. Sørensen

Social position from narrative data / Jonathan Gershuny

Social polarization in the electronic economy / Jan Pahl

Logics of urban polarization: the view from below / Loïc Wacquant

Employment, unemployment and social polarization: young people and cyclical transitions / Robert MacDonald and Jane Marsh

Late twentieth century workplace relations: class struggle without classes / Paul Edwards

The gendered restructuring of the middle classes: employment and caring / Rosemary Crompton

Conclusion: renewing class analysis / Fiona Devine and Mike Savage.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0631221875

OCLC:

48541352