Class Analysis and the Reorientation of Class Theory

The Case of Persisting Differentials in Educational Attainment

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ID23724853
AuthorsJohn H Goldthorpe (0000-0003-1131-2619, corresponding author)
Year2000
Pages161-181
Publication date2000-07-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueOn Sociology (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780198295716.003.0008
OpenAlexW4388371233
ISBN9780198295716
LanguageEN
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IN AN ESSAY published elsewhere, Gordon Marshall and I have set out the case for class analysis as a research programme. The aim of this programme could be summarized as that of enquiring into the interrelations that prevail among class structures, class mobility, class inequalities, and class formation (or decomposition). Viewed in this way, we argued, class analysis ‘does not entail a commitment to any particular theory of class’ but, rather, provides a context in which ‘different and indeed rival theories’ may be formulated and assessed (Goldthorpe and Marshall 1992: 382).

Class (philosophy) · Class analysis · Class formation · Context (archaeology) · Economics · Epistemology · Inequality · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Set (abstract data type) · Social class · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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