Class in Contemporary Britain

Monika Beutel

Chapter Chapter 3 in Economics: An Anti-Text, 1977, pp 36-54 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The aim of this chapter is to fill a gap left by orthodox textbooks in economics, which reject the need for a discussion of class and its contemporary importance. In the first part we discuss the main uses of the concept ‘class’: first, in the context of a Marxist theory of society where class analysis is concerned with the relationship between groups of people who are defined in relation to their part in the process of production; second, as the concept of social class which refers to ranked (occupational) groupings who have a number of mainly distributional characteristics such as range of income or length of schooling in common.

Keywords: Gini Coefficient; Economic Method; Capitalist Society; Sociological Analysis; Grammar School (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1977
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-15751-8_3

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