The Class Structure of the Advanced Societies

The Class Structure of the Advanced Societies
Author: Anthony Giddens
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1973
Genre: Social classes
ISBN:

Describes the ways in which scientific advances have contributed to athletic performance focusing on sports medicine and the work of the U.S. Olympic Training Centers.

Anthony Giddens

Anthony Giddens
Author: Christopher G. A. Bryant
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1997
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780415116893

Anthony Giddens has made original contributions to the fields of social theory, political sociology, the sociology of stratifications & suicide. This set includes carefully selected secondary articles which bring out the scope of his work.

The New Politics of Class

The New Politics of Class
Author: Prof Klaus Eder
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1993-06-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781446238257

Are contemporary societies organized by class? In recent years the apparent fragmentation of established class structures and the emergence of new social movements - in particular the women's movement and environmentalism - have altered the traditional expressions of class in society. At the same time, these changes have posed fundamental questions for the concept of class in sociology and political science. In this major reassessment, Klaus Eder offers a new perspective on the status of class in modernity. Drawing on a critique of Bourdieu, Touraine and Habermas, he outlines a cultural conception of class as the basis for understanding contemporary societies. His model reevaluates the role of the middle classes, traditionally the crux of class analysis, and links class to social theories of power and cultural capital. The result is a cultural theory of class which incorporates the changing forms of collective action and the new social movements of contemporary societies.

Class and Stratification

Class and Stratification
Author: Rosemary Crompton
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2008-05-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0745638708

Back to definitions: the approach developed in this bookThe possibility of countervailing processes; Notes; References; Index; End User License Agreement.

Class Structure in Europe

Class Structure in Europe
Author:
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2003
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9780765621023

A comparison of these two presidents and presidencies, examining their legacies, leadership styles, and places in history.

Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism

Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism
Author: D.W. Livingstone
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2023-09-07T00:00:00Z
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1773636456

Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism is a pathbreaking study of the changing class makeup of the Canadian, other G7 and Nordic labour forces since the 1980s, documenting especially the rise of non-managerial professional employees. The book provides unprecedented tracking of the links between employment classes and higher levels of class consciousness, including the often hidden political consciousness of corporate capitalists as well as the extent of oppositional and revolutionary consciousness among non-managerial workers. The large differences exposed between class conscious capitalists and these non-managerial workers on issues of poverty reduction and global warming reveal the strategic roles these key class agents play in actions to defend or transform advanced capitalism. The most concerted evidence-based study to bring class back into grasping the intimately linked ecological, economic and political crises we now face.

Technical Workers in an Advanced Society

Technical Workers in an Advanced Society
Author: Stephen Crawford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1989-09-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0521351022

First published in 1989, this book examines the work, careers and politics of French engineers and technical workers employed in traditional and high-technology settings. In the process, it critically evaluates several theories of social change and advocates a unique approach to class theory and the comparative analysis of nations. Neither owners of productive property nor wage workers performing routinised labour. Engineers occupy an ambiguous social position that has elicited a good deal of controversy about trends in their situation and ideology. Where theories of professionalism anticipate occupationally based challenges to the legitimacy of bureaucratic authority, Marxian and neo-Marxian analyses foresee class-based opposition to capitalism. Yet all these theories share a preoccupation with the effects of technology and the division of labour on social values and group identities. This book maintains that such a preoccupation obscures the significance of career situations and the distinctively national institutions that shape them. The book presents a fresh view of the interplay of occupation, class and nation.