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Class and politics in contemporary social science : "Marxism lite" and its blind spot for culture
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Blinde vlek voor cultuur. English
Title
Class and politics in contemporary social science : "Marxism lite" and its blind spot for culture / Dick Houtman ; translated by Sheila Gogol.
ISBN
0585489068
9780585489063
Published
New York : Aldine de Gruyter, ©2003.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 193 pages) : illustrations
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Print version: Houtman, Dick. Blinde vlek voor cultuur. English. Class and politics in contemporary social science. New York : Aldine de Gruyter, ©2003
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Books / Online
Language
English
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October 04, 2024
Series
Sociological imagination and structural change
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-186) and index.
Contents
Introduction
Modernity as industrialism
Research problem
Approach
Data
Design of the book
Notes to chapter 1
What is actually a class?
Martin Lipset and working-class authoritarianism
Introduction
What is actually a class?
Hypotheses
Operationalization
Results
Conclusion
Notes to chapter 2
What about occupational self-direction?
Melvin Kohn and working-class authoritarianism
Introduction
Melvin Kohn: theory and research findings
Hypotheses
Operationalization
Results
Conclusion
Notes to chapter 3
Is postmaterialism really different from libertarianism?
And can it be explained materialistically?
Introduction
What does Inglehart's postmaterialism index measure?
Parental affluence and postmaterialism
Measurement
Results
Conclusion
Notes to chapter 4
Why are there so many postmaterialists in affluent countries?
An international comparison
Introduction
Hypotheses
Data and measurement
Results
Conclusion
Notes to chapter 5
Who votes for whom? and why exactly?
Class, cultural capital and voting behavior
Introduction
Methodological progress and theoretical stagnation
Class voting and cultural voting in the Netherlands
How theoretical complacency can produce wrong findings
So, once again: has there been a decline of class voting?
Notes to chapter 6
Has there really been a decline of class voting?
Class voting and cultural voting in Great Britain, 1974-1997
Introduction
Operationalization
Has the relation between class and voting decreased?
But has class voting declined too?
Cultural voting
The decline of class voting and the silent revolution
The ironies of Marxism lite
Notes to chapter 7
Conclusion
Marxism lite and its blind spot for culture
Introduction
Research findings
Education, social inequality and cultural capital
Severing the link with class and social stratification
Culture, industrialism and modernity
New answers to old questions.
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