Originally published in 1974, The Social Analysis of Class Structure is an edited collection addressing class formation and class relations in industrial society. The range and variety of the contributions provide a useful guide to the central concerns of British sociology in the 1970s. Encompassing general theorizing and empirical investigation, the book examines the treatment of crucial issues of the day, such as the relationships between race and class formation, and sexual subordination, as well addressing historical questions such as the Victorian labour aristocracy and the incorporation of the working class.
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Strategies of Social Closure in Class Formation, Frank Parkin
2. The Labour Aristocracy in the Victorian Class Structure, Robert Q. Gray
3. Race and Ethnicity in Class Formation: A Comparison of Asian and West Indian Workers, Shelia Allen and Christopher Smith
4. Towards a Theory of Social Stratification, W.G. Runciman
5. The Petits Bourgeois in the Class Structure: The Case of the Small Shopkeepers, Frank Bechhofer, Brian Elliott, Monica Rushforth and Richard Bland
6. Officialdom and Class: Bases of Inequality in Socialist Society, Zygmunt Baumann
7. Conceptions of the Class Structure and Political Ideology: Some Observations on Attitudes in England and Sweden, Richard Scase
8. Sexual Inequality and Stratification Theory, Chris Middleton
9. Education and Social Mobility in France, Jane Marceau
10. Market Socialism and Class Structure: Manual Workers and Managerial Power in the Yugoslav Enterprise, Leslie Benson
11. ‘Working Class Incorporation’ – A Historical Approach with Reference to the Mining Communities of S.E. Northumberland, 1840-1890, J.M. Cousins and R.L. Davis
Name Index
Subject Index
Biography
Frank Parkin
