| Property, Bureaucracy and Culture: Middle Class Formation in Contemporary Britain Revised Edition Contributor(s): Savage, Michael (Author), Barlow, James (Author), Dickens, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415130093 ISBN-13: 9780415130097 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $60.79 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 1995 Annotation: Property, Bureaucracy and Culture places the British middle classes in their historical and regional contexts in order to explain how they exercise a powerful impact in present-day British society. The authors develop a new theoretical perspective on the middle classes, criticizing fashionable but unhelpful theories of the "service class," and drawing upon the work of Wright and Bourdieu to develop a theoretical realist perspective which is sensitive to the variety of ways in which middle-class formation takes place. They argue that the British middle class has been split between a cohesive and well-established professional middle class, and an insecure and marginal managerial and self-employed middle class. The book shows how this split has been widened by recent changes in economic structuring and explores the implications for society today. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 305.550 |
| Series: International Library of Sociology (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.90 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This assured and powerful study explores the condition of the middle classes in Britain today. The authors outline a new theoretical perspective for exploring the middle classes and provide the reader with up-to-date empirical information on the class structure. |
