Social Class in Modern Britain
Author | : Gordon Marshall |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2005-08-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781134858934 |
ISBN-13 | : 1134858930 |
Rating | : 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The book incorporates three alternative conceptions of class. Erik Olin Wright's structural Marxist account is set alongside John Goldthorpe's occupational class schema, and the Registrar-General's prestige and skill-related categories. The authors use their unique data on inequality and conflict in contemporary Britain to provide, for the first time, a rigourous comparison of Marxist, sociological and official class frameworks. The book ranges widely across such topics as sectionalism in the workforce; privatism of families and individuals; fatalism; gender and class processes; sectoral production and consumption cleavages. The authors conclude that class is still crucial in structuring economic, political and social life.