Debate on class issue in contemporary sociology

Debate on class issue in contemporary sociology

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The contemporary debate on class issue within the sociology in English speaking countries focuses on two questions.The first question is whether the crisis of the Marxist class analysis, which arose as a consequence of weakening of class identity and class behavior, is at the same time a sign of crisis of sociological class conception.There are American, British and Australian sociologists whose answer to this question is affirmative.

However, others have been claiming that the Marxist class analysis Queen Bookcase Platform Bed could be replaced by the Weberian concept of stratification.The second question in this debate is on the exploratory importance of class for sociological analysis.Some sociologists have been claiming that its explanatory capacity is exhausted.

However, there are others who argue that classes remain one of the most important tools a Chocolate modern sociologist has.Finally, this paper points to the third way of saving the class analysis.It is about focusing on collective identity and collective action of the members of "developed" professions, as a kind of "small" classes or "proto-classes".