Back to social classes?
Alongside a literature that considers the reference to social classes to be misleading, there has been a recent debate on the persisting importance of social classes in sociological explanation. This debate has brought interesting empirical results, but has also put into question the traditional sch...
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| Formaat: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Taal: | Anglais |
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Quaderni di Sociologia
2022
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | Alongside a literature that considers the reference to social classes to be misleading, there has been a recent debate on the persisting importance of social classes in sociological explanation. This debate has brought interesting empirical results, but has also put into question the traditional schemes of classes that have been used since the 1980s.The diminishing ability of the variable ‘class’ to explain a large part of social phenomena is not due to the disappearance of classes, but to the inability of the traditional schemes to reflect the emerging aspects of the structure, which continue to perform their central role in explaining social inequalities. The article identifies and discuss the most important of these emerging aspects and their implication for the proposal of new empirical schemes. |
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