This textbook provides a lively and penetrating exploration of the concept of class and its relevance for understanding a wide range of issues in contemporary society. The book presents a sophisticated account of the theoretical foundations in an accessible and engaging manner. It then explores class using cross-national comparative data on topics such as social mobility, housework, friendship patterns, class structure and class consciousness. This Student Edition of Class Counts thus combines Wright's sophisticated account of central and enduring questions in social theory with practical analyses of detailed social problems.
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This textbook provides a lively and penetrating exploration of the concept of class and its relevance for understanding a wide range of issues in contemporary society. The book presents a sophisticated acount of the theoretical foundations in an accessible and engaging manner. It then explores class using cross-national comparative data on topics such as social mobility, housework, friendship patterns, class structure and class consciousness. This Student Edition of Class Counts thus combines Wright's sophisticated account of central and enduring questions in social theory with practical analyses of detailed social problems.
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The empirical research in this book covers a wide range of substantive topics: from friendship patterns and class mobility to housework and class consciousness. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mediated class locations, nonskilled supervisors, class analysis project, mediated class relations, direct class location, gross gender gap, nonclass oppressions, other class locations, transformative sector, typist married, permeability events, privileged class location, specific class locations, authority dichotomy, dimensional permeability, different class locations, classical historical materialism, static permeability, expertise boundary, skill boundary, extended working class, authority dimension, nonskilled workers, contradictory class locations, dynamic permeability Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, United Kingdom, North America, Expert Skilled Nonskilled, Third World, Native Americans, Garden of Eden, John Goldthorpe, Li'l Abner, Michael Burawoy New!
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The empirical research in this book covers a wide range of substantive topics: from friendship patterns and class mobility to housework and class consciousness. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mediated class locations, nonskilled supervisors, class analysis project, mediated class relations, direct class location, gross gender gap, nonclass oppressions, other class locations, transformative sector, typist married, permeability events, privileged class location, specific class locations, authority dichotomy, dimensional permeability, different class locations, classical historical materialism, static permeability, expertise boundary, skill boundary, extended working class, authority dimension, nonskilled workers, contradictory class locations, dynamic permeability Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, United Kingdom, North America, Expert Skilled Nonskilled, Third World, Native Americans, Garden of Eden, John Goldthorpe, Li'l Abner, Michael Burawoy New!
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- Making Sense of Marx (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory) by Jon Elster in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Interrogating Inequality: Essays on Class Analysis, Socialism, and Marxism by Erik Olin Wright in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Origin of the Family: Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels on page 148, and Back Matter
- Capitalism and Social Democracy (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory) by Adam Przeworski in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Reconstructing Marxism: Essays on Explanation and the Theory of History by Erik Olin Wright in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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