Bringing Class Back In: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives.

Abstract

In recent years, the study of class has shaped and been shaped by the flurry of post-structuralist, post-Marxist and state-centred approaches that have emerged in historical and sociological scholarship. Yet class analysis has sustained itself as a powerful, refined working tool in helping scholars to understand the complexities of social and historical processes. This volume of original essays provides a cross-section of the body of social theory and empirical research being produced by scholars employing class analysis. The contributors address continuing debates over the relationship between structure and agency, the centrality of class realism and the dynamics of class formation, class culture and class consciousness.