254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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In recent years historians and other social scientists have widely questioned the continued relevance of social class - as historical relationship, as sociological category, as philosophical concept, and in terms of its enduring political significance. The success of the British Conservative Party since 1979, combined with the weaknesses and failures of the Labour movement, have led historians... Read more
Contents: List of Contributors; Editor's Introduction; PART ONE: Sociological Perspectives; The "New Structuralism": Class Politics and Class Analysis, Fiona Devine; Space, Networks and Class Formation, Michael Savage; Class and the 'Linguistic Turn' in Chartist and Post-Chartist Historiography, Neville Kirk; PART TWO: Marxism; The Logic of Social Democracy: Adam Przeworski'sm Historical Theses, Robert Looker; Class Struggle, Capitalist Democracy and Rational Choice: Przeworski's Analytical Theses, Robert Looker; Roger Scruton and the New Left, David Coates; Reading Alistair Reid: A Future for Labour History?, David Howell; Index.
Biography
Neville Kirk
