Class

Andrew Milner
Published by Sage (1999)

ISBN: 0761952446 : 0761952454 (pbk.) :

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Book description
This concise and accessible book provides an overview of the position of class in Cultural Studies and Sociology. Many critics argue that society has moved into a stage where classes have disappeared, so the class struggle can no longer be regarded as the motor of history. But class is a key concept in cultural studies and has underpinned the approaches to culture associated with influential figures in cultural studies like Hoggart, Williams and Hall.

The author argues that the theoretical retreat from class has very often expressed the class interests of its advocates. The book offers readers a critical introduction to the Marxist and Weberian accounts of class and relates the significance of class in the new social movements. It also looks at class politics and trends in the character of class relations.

The book reopens the debates over class and culture very nearly closed down in postmodernism. It is an attempt to restore the concept of class to a focal point in contemporary cultural studies.

About the author
Andrew Milner is a Professor of Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University. He has authored other books including, Culture and Society (1996), Contemporary Cultural Theory (1994), Cultural Materialism (1993), The Road to St Kilda Pier (1984) and John Milton and the English Revolution (1981)

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