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Class analysis
About: Class analysis is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 750 publications have been published within this topic receiving 22018 citations.
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24 Feb 2003
TL;DR: Class Strategies and the Education Market as mentioned in this paper examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education, identifying key moments of decision making in the construction of the educational trajectories of middle class children.
Abstract: Class Strategies and the Education Market examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education.Drawing on an extensive series of interviews with parents and children, this book identifies key moments of decision making in the construction of the educational trajectories of middle class children. Stephen J. Ball organises his analysis around the key concepts of social closure, social capital, values and principles and risk, while bringing a broad range of up-to-date sociological theory to bear upon his subject. From this thorough analysis, valuable and thought-provoking insights emerge into the assiduous care and considerable effort and expenditure which goes into ensuring the educational success of the middle class childThe middle classes are a sociological enigma, presenting the social researcher with considerable analytic and theoretical difficulties. Class Strategies and the Education Market provides a set of working tools for class analysis and the examination of class practices. Above all, it offers new ways of thinking about class theory and the relationships between classes in late modern society.
1,485 citations
Book•
28 Nov 1996
TL;DR: In this article, a general framework for studying class consciousness and class formation in Sweden, the United States and Japan is presented. But it does not consider the effects of class on the gendered division of labor in the home.
Abstract: 1. Class analysis Part I. The Class Structure of Capitalism and its Transformations: 2. Class structure in comparative perspective 3. The transformation of the American class structure, 1960-90 4. The fall and rise of the petty bourgeoisie Part II. The Permeability of Class Boundaries: 5. Class-boundaries permeability: conceptual and methodological issues 6. Permeability of class boundaries to intergenerational mobility 7. Cross-class friendships 8. Cross-class families Part III. Class and Gender: 9. Conceptualizing the interaction of class and gender 10. Individuals, families and class analysis 11. The non-effects of class on the gendered division of labor in the home 12. The gender gap in workplace authority Part IV. Class Structure and Class Consciousness 13. A general framework for studying class consciousness and class formation 14. Class consciousness and class formation in Sweden, the United States and Japan 15. Class, state employment and consciousness 16. Temporality, class structure and class consciousness Part V. Conclusion 17. Confirmations, surprises and theoretical reconstructions Index.
947 citations
878 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a socio-spatial dialectic is introduced as a means of reopening the debate and calling for the explicit incorporation of the social production of space in Marxist analysis as something more than an epiphenomenon.
Abstract: An increasingly rigidifying orthodoxy has begun to emerge within Marxist spatial analysis that threatens to choke off the development of a critical theory of space in its infancy. The concept of a socio-spatial dialectic is introduced as a means of reopening the debate and calling for the explicit incorporation of the social production of space in Marxist analysis as something more than an epiphenomenon. Building upon the works of Henri Lefebvre, Ernest Mandel, and others, a general spatial problematic is identified and discussed within the context of both urban and regional political economy. The spatial problematic is not a substitute for class analysis but it can be an integral and increasingly salient element in class consciousness and class struggle within contemporary capitalism. Space is not a scientific object removed from ideology and politics; it has always been political and strategic. If space has an air of neutrality and indifference with regard to its contents and thus seems to be “...
876 citations
TL;DR: This argument is developed and illustrated in the course of an attempt to apply rational action theory to the explanation of persisting class differentials in educational attainment.
Abstract: In class analysis the main regularities that have been established by empirical research are not ones of long-term class formation or decomposition, as envisaged in Marxist or liberal theory, but rather ones that exhibit the powerful resistance to change of class relations and associated life-chances and patterns of social action. If these regularities are to be explained, theory needs to be correspondingly reoriented, and must abandon functionalist and teleological assumptions in favour of providing more secure micro-foundations. This argument is developed and illustrated in the course of an attempt to apply rational action theory to the explanation of persisting class differentials in educational attainment.
607 citations
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