Class and Social Capital in Europe

Carmo, Renato Miguel do; Nunes, Nuno

doi:10.1080/14616696.2012.691171

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“…It consists of the following classes: entrepreneurs and executives (EE) are employers or directors in private companies or the public administration and may be recruited from any of the groups in the occupational structure; professionals and managers (PM) are employees in upper or mid-level intellectual, scientific and technical jobs; the self-employed (SE) work on their own account, without employees, in administrative or similar occupations in services and commerce; routine employees (RE) are administrative and similar personnel, service employees and salespeople; and industrial workers (IW) and agricultural workers (AW) are manual workers employed in less skilled occupations (cf. Carmo & Nunes 2013). Although this database covers employers as well as employees, we only consider the latter, as they are the focus of our analysis.…”

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“…Thus, people with similar response patterns tend to be positioned at coordinates close to the factorial plot, unlike others whose response patterns have a different statistical and sociological significance. Graphic proximity therefore indicates a certain statistical homogeneity” (Carmo & Nunes 2013: 10-11). This method makes it possible to draw a graph of multiple associations between the categories making up the variables and the position of each object (individual) on the factorial plot (Carvalho 2008).…”

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“…2.8 Our statistical model, produced by multiple correspondence analysis (MCA), does not encompass variables related to practices and cultural capital, so it cannot strictly be considered an adaptation of Bourdieu's social space. In this article the space of social positions is analysed by using demographic, economic and educational variables regarding the Portuguese labour force in the private sector (Antunes 2011; Carmo & Nunes 2013).…”

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The Persistence of Class Inequality: The Portuguese Labour Force at the Turn of the Millennium

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Carvalho

Cantante

2015

Sociological Research Online

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The aim of this article is to analyse the structural changes and continuities in Portuguese society over the two decades from 1988-2008. Although modernisation processes have intensified, the country still has a highly polarised social structure. This study included a multiple correspondence analysis and a cluster analysis, using sociological variables collected in a national database that covers all Portuguese companies. Developing this approach made it possible to not only produce different sociological profiles of social and class inequality, but also compare the structural changes in the labour force in these two decades (private sector). The study shows that although the space of social positions was mainly formed by three large socioprofessional groups in both 1988 and 2008, their size and social composition changed, reflecting the social and economic trends experienced by Portuguese society in this period.

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The Persistence of Class Inequality: The Portuguese Labour Force at the Turn of the Millennium

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2015

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“…F. Costa, Mauritti, Martins, Machado, & Almeida, 2000;Machado & Costa, 1998;Machado et al, 2003). Currently, a newer generation of authors uses the ACM typology to explore class inequalities in European societies (Almeida, Machado, & Costa, 2006;Carmo & Nunes, 2013;A. F. d. Costa, Mauritti, Martins, Nunes, & Romão, 2018;Mauritti, Martins, Nunes, Romão, & Costa, 2016).…”

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“…There are vast differences in terms of overall volume and composition of capital, which should be used to discriminate them into different class fractions. While possible within the ACM logic, this is rarely done (a notable exception is Carmo & Nunes, 2013). As Bourdieu (1998) argues, horizontal differentiation is a relevant source of antagonism and struggle.…”

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Remapping the Portuguese social space: Towards a Bourdieusian class scheme

Ramos

Carvalho

2021

Portuguese Journal of Social Science

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Class analysis is intimately linked to the very development and consolidation of Portuguese sociology after the Carnation Revolution. Throughout the last decades, different research programmes assessed the nature and extent of class inequalities, drawing on Marxist, Weberian and functionalist paradigms. After a highly productive and intensely debated phase, a syncretic and compact approach prevailed. While this approach captures relevant features of class inequality, its current version overshadows critical aspects of difference and misrecognition in the social space in Portugal. From an analysis of occupational, qualifications and income data, we first propose a scheme of class fractions, which draws on the relational and multidimensional approach to class originally proposed by Bourdieu and recently taken up in European sociology. Using multiple correspondence analysis and nationally representative datasets, we demonstrate the validity of this tool for studying class and linkages to fields and its potential for replication in further statistical and qualitative research.

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Class and Organizing

Gist¹

2017

The International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication

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Social class is a complex phenomenon that impacts organizing practices at individual, group, organizational, institutional, and societal levels. In this entry, various dimensions of social class are overviewed, including social identity, type of labor, dignity, dominant discourses, communication, and social mobility. Social class is considered to be deeply rooted in social identities as well as more macrolevel manifestations, such as labor practices. As a historically pervasive manifestation, social class is globally present in material and discursive reality. Organizational communication scholars have identified ways in which social class influences our communication, dignity, and social mobility. Recent theorizing about the relationship between social class and communication points to future directions for research. Scholars have an opportunity to explore the intersection of social class with a myriad of other phenomena from an interdisciplinary perspective in order to better understand its power and function both within and outside organizational contexts.

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Class and Social Capital in Europe

Cited by 13 publications

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The Persistence of Class Inequality: The Portuguese Labour Force at the Turn of the Millennium

The Persistence of Class Inequality: The Portuguese Labour Force at the Turn of the Millennium

Remapping the Portuguese social space: Towards a Bourdieusian class scheme

Class and Organizing

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