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This article considers The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan, 2012) in order to argue through Fredric Jameson that postmodern aspects of a text are capable of obfuscating, if not altogether obliterating, any Marxist polemics. The first... more
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      Film StudiesGenre studiesFilm AnalysisPostmodernism
This article explores the importance of non-capitalist space within the global political economy. The issue of how to categorise and understand space in so-called peripheral regions such as Latin America has been a contentious one. Whilst... more
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      MarxismPropertyResistance (Social)Capitalism
This article explores the patterns of class inequality and capital accumulation in Brazil, showing the drivers and limits of the decline in inequality that occurred during the Workers' Party governments. It proposes that minimum wage... more
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      Latin American StudiesDevelopment EconomicsPolitical EconomyDevelopment Studies
The main focus of this article is to map the field of the dominant discourses fabricated, promoted and cultivated in the field of Mass Media, in terms of the decade-long Greek crisis. What will be supported is that, during the whole... more
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      Political EconomySociology of EducationMarxismCritical Pedagogy
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      Sociology of EducationCritical PedagogyCritical Social TheoryIdentity (Culture)
In this article, we address the classical debate about the relationship between the economic and cultural aspects of social stratification, typically cast in terms of Weber's distinction between class and status. We discuss in particular... more
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      ClassPierre BourdieuGeometric Data Analysis (Multiple Correspondence analysis, Principal Componen analysis)Bourdieu
Die Lebenswelten von Jugendlichen sind von Klassenspaltungen
durchzogen. Doch es gibt gemeinsame Hoffnungen,
die sich von links ansprechen lassen.
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      Social MovementsYouth StudiesClass Analysis
Why does class matter for the study of work? At first glance, the question might seem obvious, because class and work are often seen as deeply intertwined. This was cer- tainly the case for the founders of sociology, although changes in... more
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      ClassLabour StudiesWork and LabourClass Analysis
Hogyan képzeljük el a magyar társadalom osztályszerkezetét? Terhes babapiskótaként? Piramisként vagy körteként? Az összetett és elvont jelenségek megértését megkönnyíti, ha már ismert dolgokhoz hasonlítjuk. A metaforák egy határig... more
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      World Systems AnalysisSocial ClassSocial ClassesSocial Structure
Qui organise aujourd'hui des funérailles catholiques à Abomey, dans le sud du Bénin? Comment, pourquoi, et dans quelles conditions? Voici quelques-unes des questions auxquelles ce texte s'efforce de répondre, en replaçant ce cas dans la... more
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      ReligionChristianityComparative ReligionSociology of Religion
Είναι πραγματικά περίεργο τη στιγμή που οι κοινωνικές ανισότητες διευρύνονται και οι συνθήκες ζωής μεγάλων τμημάτων του πληθυσμού επιδεινώνονται, η κοινωνική ανάλυση να παραιτείται από την έννοια της κοινωνικής τάξης. Εντούτοις η... more
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      Social InequalityClass AnalysisClass Structure
Ebbs and Flows of Class Analysis: Marx, Weber and beyond... This paper analyzes the cycles of class analysis according to the ebbs and flows of class struggle... 1848, 1871, 1917-1930 and 1979s... Those are the critical turning points in... more
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      MarxSocial ClassWeberClass Analysis
These notes were prepared for my doctoral students. Basically the notes address how public schools and other dominant institutions in society depict the cultural conventions of low-status groups as inferior or particularistic, and to... more
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      Sociology of EducationCultural CapitalPierre BourdieuClass Analysis
Σε αυτό το άρθρο θέλω να προτείνω ένα τρόπο θεωρητικοποίησης των μεθοδολογικών και ερευνητικών ζητημάτων όσον αφορά στη σχέση της κοινωνικής τάξης με το σχολείο και την κοινωνική αναπαραγωγή. Συνήθως οι έρευνες στην κοινωνιολογία της... more
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      Sociology of EducationClass AnalysisPolitical Economy of Education
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      MarxismPost-MarxismMarxist theorySocial Class
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      Labour StudiesTrade unionsNicos PoulantzasClass Analysis
Marksist düşüncede toplumun sınıflar temelinde analizi büyük bir önem taşır. Sınıfların bu önceliği ve önemi, hem toplumun bilimsel analizinin sonucu hem de çıkış noktasıdır. Sınıfları bütünlüklü olarak ele alıp tartışmamış olsa da... more
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      MarxismMarxist theoryMarxism (Political Science)Social Class
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      Industrial And Labor RelationsLabour StudiesWork and LabourLabor History and Studies
In this concise introduction, Chad Kautzer demonstrates the shared emancipatory goals and methods of several radical philosophies, from Marxism and feminism to critical race and queer theory. Radical Philosophy examines the relations of... more
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      Critical TheorySocial MovementsSocial TheoryPhilosophy
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      ClassKarl MarxFordism and Post-FordismClass Analysis
In contemporary pedagogy, "class" has become one nomadic sign among others: it has no referent but only contingent allusions to similarly traveling signs. Class, that is, no longer explains social conflicts and antagonisms rooted in... more
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      EducationGlobalizationTeacher EducationMarxism
Nearly four centuries ago, liberal political thought asserted that the state was the product of a distant, prehistorical, social contract. Social science has done little to overcome this fiction. Even the most radical of theories have... more
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      SociologyCultural StudiesPolitical SociologySocial Theory
A translation of, and introduction to, Akhtar Husain Raipuri's pivotal articulation of the relationship between literature and the struggle against colonialism and capitalism struggle.
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      Literary CriticismClass AnalysisMarxist Literary CriticismUrdu Language and Literature
The telegraph, telephone, and television, not to mention the Internet and mobile telephony, are all forms of communication that move information faster than the speed at which objects move. Both labor and capital and armies and... more
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      Cultural StudiesMedia StudiesMedia and Cultural StudiesDigital Media
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      Herbert MarcuseKarl MarxC. Wright MillsClass Analysis
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      Economic SociologyEast Asian StudiesClass AnalysisBusiness group
This article explores the anticlimatic suspense sequence, a phrase used to describe the use of mise-en-scene to build suspense and tease the killer, within a recent cycle of slasher film remakes. Despite the ubiquity of these scenes in... more
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      Film StudiesHorror FilmHorror CinemaFilm Remakes
Since the end of its civil war, Lebanon has been ruled by a political elite that maintains a sectarian clientelist hegemony characterised by corruption and public services deterioration. The 2015 protest movement (Harak) was provoked by a... more
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      Social MovementsPolitical EconomyDevelopment StudiesMarxism
Questo scritto introduce e presenta un saggio di Michael Burawoy, dove il sociologo di Berkeley traccia un profilo intellettuale del collega e amico Erik Wright. Redatto per la conferenza tenutasi l'1 e il 2 novembre 2019 all'Università... more
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      Critical TheoryPublic SociologyHistory of IdeasMarxism
This article presents a critique of classic applications of class analysis to Polish society. It argues from a Bourdieusian standpoint that class is subordinate to culture in shaping social relations in Poland. More specifically, Poland... more
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      East European intelligentsiasSocial StratificationCultural CapitalClass Analysis
Η εργασία αυτή αναπτύσσεται ως κριτική στις θεωρίες του Μετά (Μεταβιομηχανική Κοινωνία, Μεταφορντισμός, Μετανεωτερικότητα κ.ο.κ.). Στο επίκεντρο της κριτικής βρίσκεται ο αποσπασματικός και ντετερμινιστικός τρόπος προσέγγισης των αλλαγών... more
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      Sociology of EducationSociology of WorkClass Analysis
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      Indian PhilosophyIndian studiesSouth Asian StudiesSouth Asia
This symposium puts together five commentaries on The Specter of Capital from diverse disciplinary perspectives, together with chibber's response.
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      Political EconomyDevelopment StudiesPostcolonial StudiesSubaltern Studies
Abstract in English first/Resumen en español más abajo. ABSTRACT: This book aims to understand the group of economic units often identified under concepts such as urban informal sector, informal economy, micro-enterprises, and... more
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      Small BusinessInformal EconomySocial ClassExploitation
The paper reviews recent findings of class analysis in Taiwan. The studies find that income inequality among social classes has continuously increased, and point out two sources of the inequality: (1) industrial upgrading led to... more
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      Taiwan StudiesSocial StratificationIncome inequalityClass Analysis
درس جامعه‌شناسی کار و شغل - دانشکده علوم اجتماعی دانشگاه تهران - بهار 1399
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      Sociology of WorkClass Analysis
The Indian Freedom Movement (1857-1947) was a signiTcant period which had a politically important impact on the Indian state's subsequent formation. The historiography of the movement was until recently much more monochromatic than the... more
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      Political EconomyWorld Systems AnalysisHistoriographyLabour history
This article attempts to destabilize the assumption that self-determination can be restricted to a “purely legal” analysis of the sort to which most international legal scholars have conventionally confined themselves. It does so by... more
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      Russian StudiesPolitical EconomyMarxismInternational Law
2005 - Unpublished report on middle class sociological literature - Consiglio per le Scienze Sociali
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      Sociology of the Middle ClassesMiddle Class IdentityClass Analysis
Althusser and Poulantzas explored the nature of the capitalist state against the backdrop of a joint problematic, which concerned the reproduction of class domination. They established a variant of Marxism that provided the theoretical... more
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      Social TheoryMarxismCritical Social TheoryClass
This article presents the inaugural memorial lecture at the Nicos Poulantzas Institute in Athens. It examines and extends the work of the eponymous Greek legal and political theorist, political economist, and communist intellectual, Nicos... more
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      Political EcologyEcologyState TheoryDemocracy
Ce texte est organisé en deux parties. La première partie remet en perspective historique la rencontre manquée entre les travaux portant sur le changement social africain, dans lesquels va s’inscrire Balandier à partir des années 1950, et... more
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      ChristianitySociologySocial ChangeAfrican Studies
This publication explores the collaboration between Biblical studies and liberal ideology from a Marxist perspective. Marxist analysis of the bible is spreading, but clarity about what constitutes Marxist readings and Marxist categories... more
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      MarxismIdeologyBiblical StudiesHistory of Biblical Interpretation
Professor Marc Sommers is driven by the question, can an international scholar working in a war-affected community do work in a way that gives voice to powerless? He says that things look, feel, and are interpreted differently from below,... more
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      Discourse AnalysisAnthropologyInternational RelationsPeace and Conflict Studies
Στη μελέτη αυτή επιχειρούμε να εξετάσουμε την μετάβαση από το μοντέλο των κοινωνικών τάξεων στο μοντέλο του κοινωνικού αποκλεισμού. Σ’ αντίθεση με το πρώτο, το οποίο βλέπει την κοινωνία ιεραρχικά δομημένη, δηλαδή ως κοινωνία... more
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      Social PolicyResearch MethodologyClass Analysis
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      Social CapitalCase StudiesHabitusPierre Bourdieu
In Part II: The Spectre of Poverty, I engage with contemporary critiques of the political economy and with Lacanian ontology in order to further challenge Laclau’s political theory and to advocate a theoretical and strategical return to... more
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      Political EconomyWorld Systems AnalysisCritical PedagogyLanguage and Ideology
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      GeographyHuman GeographyAmerican StudiesMarxism
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      Literary CriticismContemporary Polish LiteratureContemporary LiteratureClass Analysis