The New Politics of Class: Social Movements and Cultural Dynamics in Advanced Societies.

Abstract

INTRODUCTION CLASS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS Bringing Classes Back into the Theory of Society Culture as the Missing Link Between Class and Collective Action PART ONE: MODERNIZING THE NOTION OF CLASS Contradictions and Social Evolution A Theory of the Role of Class in the Production of Modernity Beyond Class as a Historical Subject Towards a Theoretical Construction of Collective Actors PART TWO: RECONNECTING CULTURE AND CLASS Culture and Class Bourdieu's Culturalist Refraction of the Traditional Theory of Class The Cognitive Representations of Social Inequality A Sociological Account of the Cultural Basis of Modern Class Society PART THREE: THE THEORY OF NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: A CHALLENGE TO CLASS THEORY? A New Social Movement? The Continuing Vitality of the Theory of the 'New Social Movements' Counterculture Movements against Modernity Nature as a New Field of Class Struggle? PART FOUR: NEW CLASS CONFLICTS? THE THEORY OF MIDDLE CLASS RADICALISM The 'New Social Movements' Moral Crusades, Political Pressure Groups, or a Social Movement? Does Social Class Matter in the Study of Social Movements? A New Theory of Middle Class Radicalism CONCLUSION: BEYOND TRADITIONAL CLASS THEORY From the Crisis of Class Politics to the Critique of Class Politics Reflecting the Role of 'Crisis Discourses' in Modern Society