Research Catalog

Title

Class analysis and social transformation / Mike Savage.

Author

Savage, Michael, 1959-

Publication

Buckingham [U.K.] ; Philadelphia, Pa. : Open University, 2000.

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Details

Description

xvi, 185 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Academic discussions about social class tend to be increasingly specialized; it has been difficult to unpack processes of cultural as well as social change. This book shows how contemporary social and cultural transformations are related to the restructuring of class relations. Using the British experience as a case study, Mike Savage gives a definitive account of debates on class and finds evidence of both the breaking down and persistence of class divisions. He employs a variety of disciplinary perspectives to provide a comprehensive account of the main features of contemporary social change." "Particular attention is paid to arguments developed by Beck and Giddens concerning individualization, and he shows how the redrawing of individual relations is tied in to the remaking of social classes in complex and largely unrecognized ways. This book brings together recent empirical research on class and should be of interest to students of social science wishing to learn about the debates on class analysis."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Sociology and social change

Uniform Title

Sociology and social change

Subject

• Social classes
• Social change
• Equality
• Class consciousness
• Social mobility
• Social Class
• Social Mobility
• social classes
• social mobility
• 71.12 social stratification, social mobility
• Class consciousness
• Equality
• Social change
• Social classes
• Social mobility
• Sociale klassen
• Sociale verandering
• Cultuurverandering
• Classes sociales
• Conscience de classe
• Mobilité sociale
• Großbritannien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I Issues in Class Analysis 1 -- 1 Travails of class theory 3 -- 2 Limits to class consciousness 23 -- 3 Economic inequality and social class 43 -- 4 Social mobility and the 'Nuffield paradigm' 72 -- Part II New Directions in Class Analysis 99 -- 5 Individualization and cultural distinction / Gaynor Bagnall, Brian Longhurst 101 -- 6 Organizational restructuring of class relations 121 -- Conclusion: class formation and social change 148.

ISBN

• 0335193285
• 9780335193288
• 0335193277
• 9780335193271

LCCN

00037510

OCLC

• ocm43836539
• 43836539
• SCSB-14662932

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library