Social Relations, Technical Divisions, and Class Stratification in the United States: An Empirical Test of the Death and Decomposition of Class Hypotheses.
Recent critiques of class analysis variously argue that aggregate class differences in life conditions and political attitudes have either declined to the point of irrelevance or decomposed into differences based on highly disaggregate occupations. This study empirically evaluates these arguments as...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 95; no. 4; pp. 1479 - 1509 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2017
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