Classes

Books and articles:

Abercrombie. Class, Structure and Knowledge: Problems of Sociology of Knowing (1980);

Ahrne. Class and Social Organization in Finland (1989);

    -     „Class and Society: A Critique of John Goldthorp's Model of Social Classes“, in Clark, J. (ur.) John H. Goldthorp: Consensus and Controversy (1990);

Althusser, Louis. Lenin and Philosophy, and Other Essays (1971);

     -     For Marx    / Pour Marx (2006, in French 1965a);

     -     Reading Capital (2016, in French 1965b);

Anderson, P.Arguments within English Marxism (1980);

Anderson, Margaret and Patricia Hill Collins. Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology (2005);

Balibar. Race, Nation, Classe (1988);

Baltzell E. Digby. Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class (1958);

    -    The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America (1964);

Baritz, Loren, The Good Life: The Meaning of Success for the American Middle Class (1982);

Barrett. Women’s Oppression Today: The Imagination in Theory: Culture, Writing, Words, and Things (1980);

Bauman. Memories of Class (1982);

Beck, U. Risk Society (1992);

Beeghley, Leonard. The Structure of Social Stratification in the United States (2004);

Bell. The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973);

Bendix, R. & S.M. Lipset (Eds.). Class, Status and Power (1953);

Bernard. Social Problems at Midcentury: Role, Status, and Stress in a Context of Abundance (1957);

Bernstein. Class, Codes and Control, 4 Vols. (1971, 1973, 1976, 1990);

Blackburn, R.M. "A New System of Classes: But What Are They and Do We Need Them?", in Work, Employment, & Society (1998);

Blau, Peter M., and Otis Dudley Duncan. The American Occupational Structure (1967);

    -     Exchange and Power in Social Life (1964);

Bourdieu, Pierre. Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture (1977, in French 1970);

    -     Outline of a Theory of Practice (1977, in French 1972);

    -     Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (1984, in French 1979);

Buckingham, A. "Is There An Underclass in Britain?", in British Journal of Sociology (1999);

Burke, Martin. The Conundrum of Class: Public Discourse on the Social Order in America (1995);

Clark, Terry Nicholls and Seymour Martin Lipset.  “Are Social Classes Dying?”, in International Sociology (1991);

Carchedi, G. On the Economic Identification of Social Classes (1977);

Coxon, A.P.M., & Jones, C.L. Class and Hierarchy: The Social Meaning of Occupations  (1979);

Crompton, Rosemary. Culture, Class and Occupation (146-158), in R.Crompton, Class and Stratification (1998);

    -      Class and Stratification: An Introduction to Current Debates (1998); 

Crompton, R., Devine, F., Savage, M. & Scott, J. Renewing Class Analysis (2001);

Croteau, David, Politics and the Class Divide: Working People and the Middle-Class Left (1995);

Currie, Elliott. The Road to Whatever: Middle-Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence (2004);

Dalphin, John The Persistence of Inequality in America (1987);

Dahrendorf, Ralf.  Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society (1959, in German 1957); 

Davis, Kingsley, and Wilbert E. Moore. Some Principles of Stratification. American Sociological Review (1945);

Davis, Mike. Prisoners of the American Dream (1986);

DeMott, Benjamin. The Imperial Middle: Why Americans Can’t Think Straight about Class (1990);

Domhoff, G. William, The Power Elite and the State: How Policy Is Made in America (1990);

Durkheim, Émile. Division Of Labor In Society (2014, in French 1893);

Elias, P. Social Class and the Standard Occupational Classification. In D. Rose & K. O’Reilly (Eds.), Constructing Classes: Towards a New Social Classification for the UK (1997a);

Elias, P. "Occupational Classification: Concepts, Methods, Reliability, Validity, and Cross-National Comparability", in Occasional Papers (1997b);

Emmison, Michael and Mark Western. “Social Class and Social Identity: A Comment on Marshall et al.”, in Sociology (1990);

Ehrenreich, Barbara. “The Professional-Managerial Class”, in Pat Walker (ed.) Beetwen Labor and Capital (1979);

    -      Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class (1985);

Engels, Friedrich. The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, in the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan (1972, in German 1884);

    -      Essential Writings of Friedrich Engels: Socialism, Utopian and Scientific; The Principles of Communism; And Others (2011);

Erikson, R., & Goldthorpe, J.H. The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies (1992);

Erikson, R., Goldthorpe, J.H., & Portocarero, L. "Intergenerational Class Mobility in Three Western European Societies: England, France and Sweden". British Journal of Sociology (1979);

Evans, G., & Mills, C. "Identifying Class Structure: A Latent Class Analysis of the Criterion-Related and Construct Validity of the Goldthorpe Class Schema", in European Sociological Review (1998);

Evans, G., & Mills, C. "In Search of the Wage-Labour/Service Contract: New Evidence on the Validity of the Goldthorpe Class Schema", in British Journal of Sociology (2000);

Feiner, Susan. Race and Gender in the American Economy: Views from across the Spectrum (1994);

Fraser, Steve and Gary Gerstle (eds.). Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy (2005);

Fussell, Paul. Class: A Guide through the American Stratification System (1983);

Gans, Herbert. The War against the Poor: The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy (1995);

Giddens, Anthony. The Class Structure of the Advanced Societies (1973);

     -     The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration (1984);

Giddens, Anthony, and David Held. Classes, Power, and Conflict: Classical and Contemporary Debates (1982);

Goldthorpe, John. H. Social Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain (1980);

    -     Social Mobility and Class Structure (1987);      

    -     "The “Goldthorpe” Class Schema: Some Observations on Conceptual and Operational Issues in Relation to the ESRC Review of Government Social Classification". in D. Rose & K. O’Reilly (Eds.), Constructing Classes: Towards a New Social Classification for the UK (1997);

Goldthorpe, J.H., & Llewellyn, C. "Class Mobility in Britain: Three Theses Examined", in Sociology (1977);

Goldthorpe, J. & Marshall, G. "The Promising Future of Class Analysis", in Sociology (1992);

Gutman, Herbert. Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America (1976);

Holton, Robert.  “Has class analysis a future? Max Weber and the challenge of liberalism to Gemeinschaftlich accounts of class”; in R. J. Holton and B. S. Turner (eds.), Max Weber on Economy and Sociology (1989);

Hout, Mike, Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza.  “The Persistence of Classes in Postindustrial Societies”, in International Sociology (1993);

Hope, K. (Ed.), The Analysis of Social Mobility (1972);

Gramsci. Prison Notebooks (Volumes 1, 2 & 3) (2011);

Grusky, David B., and Jesper B. Sørensen. "Can Class Analysis Be Salvaged?" American Journal of Sociology (1998); 

Harrington, Michael. The Other America (1962);

Harris, William. The Harder We Run:Black Workers since the Civil War (1982);

Hartman, Chester, and Pamela Roby (ed). The Poverty Establishment (1974);

Hirst, Paul. "Economic Classes and Politics", in A. Hunt (ed.). Class and Structure (1977); 

Hall, Stuart. "The Problem of Ideology: Marxism without Guarantees", in Marx: A Hundred Years On (1983);

Harvey, David. Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development (2006);

Horowitz, Daniel. The Morality of Spending: Attitudes toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875–1940 (1985);

Jackman, Mary. Class Awareness in the United States (1983);

Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow:Black Women, Work, and Family from Slavery to the Present (1985);

Katz, Michael. The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare (1989);

Katznelson, Ira, and Aristide Zolberg. Working-Class Formation: Nineteenth-century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States (1985);

Keister, Lisa. Wealth in America: Trends in Wealth Inequality (2000);

Kessler-Harris Alice. Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (1982);

Kingston, Paul W. The Classless Society (2000); 

Kelso, William. Poverty and the Underclass: Changing Perceptions of the Poor in America (1994);

    -     Challenges to Equality: Poverty and Race in America (2001);

Kerbo, Harold. Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in the United States (1983);

    -    Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in Historical, Comparative, and Global Perspective (2005);

Kindall, Donna. Race, Class, and Gender in a Diverse Society: A Text-Reader (1997);

Laclau, E. Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory: Capitalism-Fascism-Populism (1977); 

Laclau, E., & Mouffe, C. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (1985);

Leacock, Eleanor. The Culture of Poverty: A Critique (1971);

Lee, D. & Turner, B. (Eds.). Conflicts About Class (2017);

Levy, R., & Joye, D. "What is Switzerland’s Stratification Like: Classes, Prestige Gradation, Professional Categories?", in International Sociology (1994);

Lee, David J. and Bryan S. Turner (eds.). Conflict about Class: Debating Inequality in late Industrialism (1994);

Lipset, Seymour Martin. Political Man (1960);

    -    "Social Class", in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, ed. David L. Sills (1968);

Lipset, Seymour Martin, and Reinhard Bendix. Social Mobility in Industrial Society (1959);

Lockwood, D. "The Weakest Link in the Chain", in: Rose, D. (Ed.) Social Stratification and Economic Change (1988); 

Lynd Robert and Helen Lynd. Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929); 

    -    Middletown in Transition (1937);

Marshall, Gordon and John H. Goldthorpe. "The Promising Future of Class Analysis: A Response to Recent Critics", in Sociology (1992);

Marshall, G., Rose, D., Newby, H., & Vogler, C. Social Class in Modern Britain (1988);

Marx. The Communist Manifesto (in German 1948); 

    -    Wage Labour and Capital (in German 1849);

    -    Class Struggles in France (in German 1850);

    -    The XVIII Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (in German 1852);

    -    A Contribution to The Critique Of The Political Economy (in German 1859); 

    -    Capital Vol. 1, 2, & 3: The Only Complete and Unabridged Edition in One Volume (2020, in German 1867, 1885, 1894);

Mills. White Collar (1951); 

    -    The Power Elite (1956);

Miliband. The State in Capitalist Society (1969);

    -    Capitalist Democracy in Britain (1982);

    -    Divided Societies: Class Struggle in Contemporary Capitalism (1989);

MacMillan Coxon, Anthony Peter.  Class and Hierarchy: The Social Meanings of Occupations (1979);

McNamee, Stephen. The Meritocracy Myth (2004);

Moen, Phyllis, Donna Dempster-McClain, and Henry Walker (eds.). A Nation Divided: Diversity, Inequality, and Community in American Society (1999);

Montgomery, David. Beyond Equality: Labor and Radical Republicans 1862–1872 (1981);

Moody, Kim. An Injury to All: The Decline of American Unionism (1988);

New York Times.  Class Matters (2005);

Nisbet, Robert. "The Decline and Fall of Social Class", in Pacific Sociological Review (1959);

Nelson, Bruce, Divided We Stand (2000);

Pahl, Ray. “Does Class Analysis without Class Theory have a Promising Future: a reply to Goldthorpe and Marshall”, in Sociology (1993);

    -    "Does Class Analysis Without Class Theory Have A Future?", in Sociology (1993); 

Pakulski, Jan.  "The Dying of Class or of Marxist Class Theory", in International Sociology (1993);

Pakulski, J. and Malcolm Waters. The Death of Class (1996);

Parkin, Frank. Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois Critique (1979);

Parsons, Talcott. "The Professions and Social Structure", in Essays in Sociological Theory  (1939);

Perrucci, Robert. The New Class Society (1999);

Poulantzas. Classes in Contemporary Capitalism  (1975, in French 1973); 

    -    Political Power and Social Classes (1978, in French 1968); 

Prandy, K. "Deconstructing Classes: Critical Comments on the Revised Social Classification", in Work, Employment and Society (1998);

Przeworski, Adam. "Proletariat into a Class: The Process of Class Formation from Kautsky’s The Class Struggle to Recent Debates", in Politics and Society (1978);

Reisman, David, Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denney The Lonely Crowd (1953); 

Roediger, David. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1991);

Roemer, J. A General Theory of Exploitation and Class  (1982);

    -    ,,New Directions in the Marxian Theory of Exploatation and Class,  in Politics and Society (1982);

    -    ,,Replay, Politics and Society (1982);

Rosenblum, Karen and Toni-Michelle Travis. The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, and Sexual Orientation (2005);

Runciman, W.G. "How Many Classes are there in Contemporary British Society?", in Sociology (1990);

Ryscavage, Paul. Income Inequality in America: An Analysis of Trends (1999);

Saunders. Social Class and Stratification (1990);

Savage, M. Class Analysis and Social Transformation (2000);

Schiller, Bradley. The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination (1995);

Schumpeter. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942);

Scott, John. "Social Class and Stratification", in Acta Sociologica (2002);

    -    “Class analysis: Back to the future?”, in Sociology (1994);

    -    Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (1985);

Shein, Lori. Inequality: Opposing Viewpoints in Social Problems (1998);

Sklair. Transnational Capitalist Class (2001);

Skocpol, Theda. The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy (2000);

Somers, Margaret. "Deconstructing and Reconstructing Class Formation Theory: Narrativity, Relational Analysis, and Social Theory", in Hall, John (ed.) Reworking Class (1997);

Sorensen, Aage. ,,On the Usefulness of Class Anaysis in Research on Social Mobility and Socioeconomic Inequality‟, in Acta Sociologica (1991);

     -     ,,The Structural Basis of Social Inequality‟, in The American Journal of Sociology (1996);

     -     ,,Toward a Sounder Basis for Class Analysis‟, in The American Journal of Sociology (2000);

Steinmetz, George. "Reflections on the Role of Social Narratives in Working-Class Formation: Narrative Theory in the Social Sciences", in Social Science History (1992);

Stewart, A., & Blackburn, R.M. "The Stability of Structural Inequality", in Sociological Review (1975);

Stewart, A., Prandy, K., & Blackburn, R.M. "Measuring the Class Structure", in Nature (1973);

     -    Social Stratification and Occupations (1980);

Sugrue, Thomas. The Origins of the Urban Crisis (1996);

Therborn. What Does the Ruling Class do When it Rules?: State Apparatuses and State Power under Feudalism, Capitalism and Socialism (1978);

Thompson, E. P. The Making of the English Working Class (1963);

Touraine. The Post-Industrial Society (1971, in French 1969);

Treiman, D.J. Occupational Prestige in Comparative Perspective (1977);

Tropman, John. Does America Hate the Poor? The Other American Dilemma: Lessons for the 21st Century from the 1960s and the 1970s (1998);

Tumin, Melvin M. "Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis", in American Sociological Review (1953);

Vanneman, Reeve and Lynn Cannon. The American Perception of Class (1987);

Vitt, L. A. Homeownership, Well Being, Class and Politics: Perceptions of American Homeowners and Renters (1993);

Waters, Malcolm.  “Succession in the stratification system: A contribution to the ‘death of class’debate”, in International Sociology (1994);

Warner, W. L., Meeker, M. L., & Eells, K. Social Class in America (1949);

Weber, Max. Economy and Society: A New Translation (2019, in German 1922a);

Welch, Finis (ed.). The Causes and Consequences of Poverty (2001);

Western, M., & Wright, E.O. "The Permeability of Class Boundaries to Intergenerational Mobility among Men in the United States, Canada, Norway, and Sweden", in American Sociological Review (1994);

William A. Henry III. In Defense of Elitism (1994);

Williams, Raymond. Marxism and Literature (1977);

Wright. Class, Crisis, and the State (1978);

     -     Class Structure and Income Determination (1979);

     -     Classes (1985);

     -     The Debate on Classes (1989);

     -     Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis (1997);

     -     Approaches to Class Analysis (2005);

     -     Understanding Class (2015);

Wright, Erik Olin, and Perrone, Luca.  ,,Marxist Class Categories”, in American Sociological Review (1978);

Zweig, Michael. The Working Class Majority (2000).

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