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Theories Of The New Class: Intellectuals And Power
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Theories Of The New Class: Intellectuals And Power
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Lawrence Peter King
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Contributions by Ivan Szelenyi
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Series | Contradictions of Modernity |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:304 | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 149 |
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ISBN/Barcode |
9780816643448
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Classifications | Dewey:335.4 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
University of Minnesota Press
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Imprint |
University of Minnesota Press
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Publication Date |
23 April 2004 |
Publication Country |
United States
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Description
King and Szelenyi show that the idea of the New Class has stubbornly entered and reentered the agenda of critical social theorizing throughout the last century. Indeed, they interpret that the last century as a history of projects by different groups of the highly educated-factions of intellectuals, bureaucrats, technocrats, managers, and the left-wing humanistic intelligentsia-to gain ultimate power. A rare empirical discussion of theory, Theories of the New Class invigorates class theories by grounding them in contemporary issues; at the same time, it uses modern polemics to revitalize historical debates on the origins of capitalism.
Author Biography
Lawrence Peter King, associate professor of sociology at Yale University, is the author of The Basic Features of Postcommunist Capitalism (2001). Ivan Szelenyi is William Graham Sumner Professor of Sociology and professor of political science at Yale University. He is the author or coauthor of Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power (1979), Urban Social Inequalities (1983), Socialist Entrepreneurs (1988), and Making Capitalism without Capitalists (1998).
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