Byrne Class After Industry

A Complex Realist Approach
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-030-02644-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 141 Seiten

Reihe: Psychology and Our Planet

The transition to twenty-first century post-industrial capitalism from the 'welfare' industrial capitalism of the twentieth century, has affected the ways in which class is lived in terms of relational inequality and the factors that structure identity. Class After Industry takes a complex realist approach to the dynamics of individual lives, places, the social structure and analyses their significance in terms of class. A wide range of quantitative and qualitative studies are drawn on to explore how 'life after industry' shapes class, and the consequent potential for social change. The book will be of interest across the social sciences and beyond, to those concerned with how class forms might translate into political action.      

David Byrne is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Durham University, UK. He has written on issues of inequality, methodology, and the complexity frame of reference. Books include Social Exclusion (2005), Applying Social Science (2011), Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences - The State of the Art (with Callaghan, 2014), and Paying for the Welfare State in the 21st Century (with Ruane, 2017).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Byrne, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;Acknowledgements;7
3;Contents;8
4;List of Tables;9
5;Chapter 1 Introduction;10
5.1;Abstract;10
5.2;References;23
6;Chapter 2 A Complex Realist Take on Theorizing Class;25
6.1;Abstract;25
6.2;Theorizing Class—The Debate in Contemporary Social Science;30
6.3;Intersectionality;35
6.4;Conclusion;39
6.5;References;40
7;Chapter 3 After Industry and After the Welfare State;42
7.1;Abstract;42
7.2;The Scale of Deindustrialization;45
7.3;How Can We Understand Post-industrial Society?;53
7.4;It Walks in the Door Without Knocking;54
7.5;References;58
8;Chapter 4 Class and Culture: The Dynamics of Cultural Change;60
8.1;Abstract;60
8.2;Kicking Post-modernism Out of the Park;63
8.3;Bourdieu on Culture;64
8.4;How Class Was and Is Lived;66
8.5;Conclusion;73
8.6;References;76
9;Chapter 5 How Class Is Lived: The Dynamics of Lives and the Dynamic of Society;78
9.1;Abstract;78
9.2;Thinking in the Complexity Frame of Reference About the Dynamics of Class Through Time;81
9.3;Households Matter;83
9.4;The Dynamics of Politics and Class Formation;87
9.5;References;90
10;Chapter 6 Class in Space;91
10.1;Abstract;91
10.2;Place, Capital and the Local State;92
10.3;Living Class in Places;99
10.4;References;107
11;Chapter 7 Understanding How Class Is Lived and Acted in Post-industrial Capitalism;109
11.1;Abstract;109
11.2;Exploring Class as Position;112
11.3;Exploring Class as Identity;117
11.4;Exploring Class as Emergent;120
11.5;References;122
12;Chapter 8 Conclusion: What Can Be Done;124
12.1;Abstract;124
12.2;References;131
13;Bibliography;132
14;Index;138