Urban history and social class: two paradigms

Autor/es: Mike Savage

Tema: Conflicto Social

Subtema: Aportes teóricos

Año: 1993

Resumen: «I» For much of the 1970s and early 1980s using an urban historians focus to analyze social class, social stratification and political conflict led the field.
The work of John Foster, Geoffrey Crossick, Robert Gray, Patrick Joyce and others to schedule an in September Helped Which Responded all social historians. Today at a similar type of research can be found Easily, but even Whilst esta shows
a high degree of conceptual sophistication and empirical rigor it less Seems to center the discipline and to the broad social Concerns of history than was the case even a decade ago. In This speculative paper I Reflect on some of the Reasons for This and contemporary Consider the prospects for studies of the relationship Between urban history and social class.
This paper compares the two rather different contributions Issue of paradigms for the study of social class and the urban. Existing research exploring urban social class has developed in two different directions and rather, in order for progress to be made, it is essential That These Are Brought into each other Dialogue with. The first is the ‘case study’ paradigm, Where the urban site is a relationship Between Where the class structure and class action can profitably be Investigated. The second is the ‘class formation’ paradigm, Where the urban is not simply a ‘case study area’, but plays a crucial part itself in the process of class formation. The former paradigm grows out of labor history and studies of working-class structure, culture and politics. The Latter – Which is less well developed – has-been developed in studies of Usually the middle and upper classes. The paper will close up commercial by showing how esta second paradigm Provides insights into how useful twentieth-century working-class culture and politics Might Be Approached. (…)

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