Class

by Andrew Milner

• ISBN13: 9780761952442
• ISBN10: 0761952446
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-13
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

This concise and accessible textbook overviews the place and continuing centrality of the concept of class in cultural studies and sociology.The book reopens the debates over class and culture that were very nearly closed down in postmodernism. Andrew Milner offers readers a critical introduction to the Marxist and Weberian accounts of class and relates the significance of class in the new social movements. He also looks at class politics and trends in the character of class relations.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
The Strange Death of Class	1	(14)
Class and the Origins of Cultural Studies	3	(3)
Identity Politics and Cultural Studies	6	(3)
Theory and Evidence	9	(6)
Marxist Theories of Class	15	(47)
Marx on Class	16	(12)
Marxism after Marx: Socialism, Communism, Western Marxism	28	(4)
Class Practice Marxism: Lukacs and Sartre	32	(7)
Ruling Ideas Marxism: Marcuse, Althusser and Post-Althusserianism	39	(8)
The Turn to Gramsci	47	(5)
After the Fall: Post-Marxism or Late Marxism?	52	(10)
Sociological Theories of Class	62	(46)
Weber on Class	64	(10)
Neo-Weberian Sociology: Class Identity and Class Consciousness	74	(4)
Neo-Weberian Class Analysis: Goldthorpe	78	(4)
Neo-Weberian Class Theory: Parkin, Giddens, Mann	82	(15)
Neo-Marxist Sociology: Westergaard and Wright	97	(11)
Cultural Studies and Class	108	(37)
Early British Cultural Studies: Williams, Hoggart and Thompson	109	(6)
Postmodernism: Stuart Hall	115	(6)
Postmodernism: Baudrillard and Lyotard	121	(6)
Postmodernism: Jameson	127	(7)
Culturalism and Class Analysis: Bourdieu	134	(11)
Class, Postmodernism and the Intelligentsia	145	(33)
The Intelligentsia as a Social Class	148	(16)
The New Social Movements and the Intelligentsia	164	(5)
Disciplining Cultural Studies	169	(9)
References	178	(16)
Index	194