| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Class and politics in contemporary social science/ Dick Houtman ; translated by Sheila Gogol. |
| Reminder of title: |
"Marxism lite" and its blind spot for culture / |
| Author: |
Houtman, Dick. |
| Published: |
New York :Aldine de Gruyter, : c2003., |
| Description: |
xiv, 193 p. :ill. ;23 cm. |
| Series: |
Sociological imagination and structural change |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
Class consciousness - Netherlands. - |
| Subject: |
Netherlands - Economic conditions. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=101518An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0585489068 (electronic bk.) |