| Repositioning Class: Social Inequality in Industrial Societies Contributor(s): Marshall, Gordon (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761955585 ISBN-13: 9780761955580 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $68.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 305.5 |
| LCCN: 97066779 |
| Physical Information: 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In recent years the death of social class has been regularly reported - such pronouncements have been as exaggerated as they were untimely. Social class is as important to the understanding of late twentieth-century industrial societies as it was to their early twentieth-century counterparts. This book aims to explain why class has persisted as such a potent social force. In Repositioning Class Gordon Marshall uses the comparative study of British experiences in relation to those of the United States, Scandinavia and the former communist countries of Eastern Europe. Also examined are cases where Britain provides the exclusive focus for discussion either about class itself, or about how sociologists might most useful |