John H. Goldthorpe: Consensus and Controversy.

Stinchcombe, Arthur L.; Clark, Jon; Modgil, Celia; Modgil, Sohan

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Class Analysis and The ‘Problematic Of The Proletariat’1

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“…In the British context the central issue in class analysis has been what David Lockwood identified as ‘the problematic of the proletariat’. Jokingly, the American sociologist Arthur Stinchcombe (1990: 828) commented over twenty years ago that ‘it is very hard to get core British sociologists interested in anything not concerned with the fate of the Labour Party or social mobility across core cultural divides separating the working class from gentlemen’. He has a point.…”

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Introduction to Elites from the ‘Problematic of the Proletariat’ to a Class Analysis of ‘Wealth Elites’

Savage

2015

The Sociological Review

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This introductory paper argues that it is vital to reorient class analysis away from its long term preoccupation with class boundaries in the middle levels of the class structure towards a focus on the class formation at the top. This will permit sociological analysis to engage more effectively with concerns about the '1 percent' and accentuating wealth which are increasingly evident. Accordingly I sketch out the persistence of the 'problematic of the proletariat' in sociological analysis before considering theoretical resources which might permit an engagement with the 'wealth elite'. This paper serves to introduce the other papers of this special issue which use the GBCS to explore different facets of the wealth elite in Britain today.

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Introduction to Elites from the ‘Problematic of the Proletariat’ to a Class Analysis of ‘Wealth Elites’

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John H. Goldthorpe: Consensus and Controversy.

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