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The rise of professional society in England since 1880 / Harold Perkin.
Van Pelt Library HN400.S6 P47 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perkin, Harold James.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social classes--England--History--19th century.
- Social classes.
- Social classes--England--History--20th century.
- Professions--England--Sociological aspects--History--19th century.
- Professions.
- Professions--England--Sociological aspects--History--20th century.
- History.
- England--Social conditions--19th century.
- England.
- Social conditions.
- England--Social conditions--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 604 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1989.
- Summary:
- "The Rise of Professional Society" lays out a new and controversial framework for the study of British society, challenging accepted paradigms based on class analysis. Perkins argues that the noncapitalist "professional class" represents a new principle of social organization based on trained expertise and meritocracy, a "forgotten middle class" conveniently overlooked by classical social theorists.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0415008905
- 041504975X
- OCLC:
- 17806207
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