The Breakdown of Class Politics: A Debate on Post-industrial Stratification

Author:   Terry Nichols Clark ,  Seymour Martin Lipset
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:  

9780801865763


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   22 May 2001
Recommended Age:   From 17
Format:   Paperback
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"""There can be no question that the theme is enormously important. Having first-rate empirical material dedicated to a debate about the relevance of social class to politics of the century soon upon us will stimulate wide debate and will frame many graduate and undergraduate courses around the country, if not the globe. And these are the ideal contributors to take on this task.""--Alan Wolfe, Boston College Class and its linkage to politics became a controversial and exciting topic again in the 1990s. Terry Clark and Seymour Martin Lipset published ""Are Social Classes Dying?"" in 1991, which sparked a lively debate and much new research. The main critics of Clark and Lipset--at Oxford and Berkeley--held (initially) that class was more persistent than Clark and Lipset suggested. The positions were sharply opposed and involved several conceptual and methodological concerns. But the issues grew more nuanced as further reflections and evidence accumulated. This book draws on four main conferences organized by the editors. Sharply contrasting views are forcefully argued with rich and subtle evidence. The volume includes a broad overview and synthesis; major reports by leading participants; and original theoretical and empirical contributions."

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Author:   Terry Nichols Clark ,  Seymour Martin Lipset
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780801865763


ISBN 10:   080186576
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   22 May 2001
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Table of Contents

Contents: List of Figure and Tables Introduction Chapter 1: What have we learned in a Decade on Class and Party Politics? Chapter 2: Are Social Classes Dying? Chapter 3: The Persistence of Classes in Post-Industrial Societies Chapter 4: The Declining Political Significance of Social Class Chapter 5: Class and Politics in Advanced Industrial Societies Chapter 6: The Democratic Class Struggle in Postwar Societies: Traditional Class Voting in Twenty Countries Chapter 7: Class Paradigm and Politics Chapter 8: Class, Culture, and Conservatism: Reassessing Education as a Variable in Political Sociology Chapter 9: Social Class and Voting: The Case Against Decline Chapter 10: Upper-Middle-Class Politics and Policy Outcomes: Does Class Identity Matter? Chapter 11: The Decline of Class Ideologies: The End of Political Exceptionalism? Chapter 12: The Debate Over Are Social Classes Dying? Contributors Index

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A useful introduction... The challenges to class analysis and political sociology posed in this volume and elsewhere will continue to shape the development of both fields. -- Kim A. Weeden American Journal of Sociology


<p>A useful introduction... The challenges to class analysis and political sociology posed in this volume and elsewhere will continue to shape the development of both fields.--Kim A. Weeden American Journal of Sociology


<p> A useful introduction... The challenges to class analysis and political sociology posed in this volume and elsewhere will continue to shape the development of both fields. -- Kim A. Weeden, American Journal of Sociology


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Terry Nichols Clark is Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He has written and edited some 25 books including The New Political Culture and City Money. He is President of Research Committee 03 of the International Sociological Association, which launched the Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation (FAUI) Project in 1982, including original surveys of over 7,000 cities in 20 countries analyzed in this volume. He has taught at Columbia, Harvard, Yale, the Sorbonne, UCLA, and the University of Florence. Seymour Martin Lipset is Hazel Professor Public Policy, George Mason University. His books include Political Man; Class, Status, and Party; Agrarian Socialism; The First New Nation; Revolution and Counterrevolution; and American Exceptionalism. He has served as editor of Public Opinion magazine. He founded and served as President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Political Sociology, which encouraged several international comparisons of social stratification and its political consequences. He has taught at Columbia, University of California-Berkeley, Harvard, and Stanford.

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