CONCEPTS OF SOCIAL CLASS

In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 84-93

Abstract

What someone means by accepting this or that class label comes out more clearly against a full account of what classes he sees & how he believes them to be related. Though the collection & analysis of sample class maps have now gone some way In America, Australia, & Britain, so that the commoner models have been isolated & their special appropriateness to those in particular reaches or strata noted, it is too early yet to expect answers to the main questions: how & when do people build their class pictures; just what work are they given to do; how rigid are they, & what sort of experiences change them; how internally inconsistent & lackadaisical are they? IPSA.