On Class, the Logic of Solidarity, and the Civilizing Process: Workers, Priests, and Alcohol in Dutch Shoemaking Communities, 1900–1920

In: Social science history: the official journal of the Social Science History Association, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 127-152

Abstract

There is an economic logic and a moral logic and it is futile to argue as to which we give priority since they are different expressions of the same "kernel" of human relationship.—E. P. Thompson, 1961Class is certainly a key concept of social history just as civilization is for the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias and his followers. Each of these traditions needs to come to terms with the other. Notwithstanding fundamentally divergent assumptions, interests, and styles, both traditions would gain from a closer examination of each other's concepts, subjects, and methods.