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Index
Cover
Key Concepts series
Title page
Copyright page
1: Introduction
A brief history of ‘class’
The fall and rise of ‘class’
Plan of the book
Part I: Class Concepts
2: Class as Exploitation
The general model
The concrete analyses
Marxism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
Contradictory class locations
Marrying Marxism and bourgeois social science
Conclusion
3: Class as Life Chances
Class, status, party
Class, capitalism and religion
After Weber
The Nuffield School
The Nuffield research agenda
Criticisms of the Nuffield School
Deepening the debt
4: Class as Misrecognition
The social space
Class habitus and symbolic space
The evolution of cultural domination?
Class-making
The field of power
Four ripostes from the old guard and some responses
Conclusion
5: Intersections
The feminist critique
Marxism and feminism: from an unhappy marriage to mariticide
Bourdieu and feminism: a happier marriage?
Ethno-racial domination and class
Conceptualizing the relationship
Bourdieu and ethnicity
Conclusion
Part II: Class Struggles
6: Social (Im)mobility
What is social mobility?
Trends in social mobility
The constant flux
The experience of social mobility
Why does social immobility persist?
7: Educational Reproduction
Marxism: education as domination and emancipation
Weberians: secondary effects and rational choices
Bourdieu: permanence through change
Conclusion
8: Health, Life and Death
Materialism versus culturalism
The ‘psychosocial’ model: health gradients and status syndromes
Marxism: social murder and greedy bastards
Bourdieu: bringing it all together
The food space and the space of sports
The impact of struggles in the field of power
Conclusion
9: Politics and Identity
Class politics and class identities
The decline of ‘class’?
Marxist and Weberian responses
Classed politics and identities
Conclusion
Coda
References
Index
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