John Goldthorpe and the Relics of Sociology

Hart, Nicky

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“…It passed through the gauntlet of academic reviews relatively intact (cf. Crewe 1973; Hart 1994; Kemeny 1972). To this day, it is still cited as a paradigmatic case of successful social scientific research.…”

Section: Washing Machines and Proletarian Persistencementioning

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The short happy life of the affluent working class: Consumption, debt and Embourgeoisement in the Age of Credit

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2019

Capital & Class

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This article reconsiders the debate over the alleged embourgeoisement of the British working classes after Second World War. ‘Bourgeois affluence and proletarian apathy’ examines why members of the New Left concluded that a ‘bourgeois’ proletariat was incapable of revolutionary activity. ‘Washing machines and proletarian persistence’ takes up the midcentury social scientific literature with an eye for the ways in which empirical research falsified key elements of that thesis. ‘Visible consumption and invisible debt’ draws attention to the ways in which both liberal advocates for and Marxist critics of embourgeoisement overemphasized spending and underemphasized debt. Finally, I close by calling attention to some of the anecdotal and empirical evidence that suggests household indebtedness perpetuates working-class dependence upon capital.

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The short happy life of the affluent working class: Consumption, debt and Embourgeoisement in the Age of Credit

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“…One of the most distinctive features of the BJS is its encouragement of debates, and the 1990s contained some notable ones. Most fiercely fought amongst these were pitched around two controversial articles: Goldthorpe on historical sociology (1991), whose animated interlocutors included Bryant, Hart, Mouzelis and Mann ( BJS 1994: 45/1); and Hakim on women's employment (1995), vigorously opposed by Crompton and Harris (1998).…”

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TheBritish Journal of Sociologyin the 1990s: disintegration and disarray?¹

Moon¹

2010

British Journal of Sociology

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“…If theory and data are to remain separate in order to demonstrate the former's general applicability, though, where then, if not from a blend of the culturally‐determined imagination of the researcher and the data‐set itself, is theoretical innovation to come from? Surely, empirical material's ‘very form is dictated by theoretical concepts operationalised as variables using linguistic categories which may themselves impose specific cultural understandings’ (Hart, 1994: 22). Indeed, rather than pretending to operate in some sort of ideological empty space, Mann is explicit in his adherence to this Kantian formulation.…”

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Method, Narrative and Historiography in Michael Mann's Sociology of State Development

Jacoby

2004

The Sociological Review

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This paper argues that the work of Michael Mann is distinguishable from neoWeberian sociology in four ways. The first is his fusion of structural conceptions of large-scale social change to the empirics of individual action. The second is his fourpart theorisation of social power and its implications for the analysis of the state. The third is his endeavour to find a middle ground between comparativist and linear historiographies. The fourth is his combination of contextual specificity and nomothetic generality. While each of these areas will be approached critically, the paper will conclude that Mann's sociology has significantly contributed to our understanding of macro-historical change.'The object of this paper is to consider three elements of Michael Mann's macro-historical sociology -his use of method, his development of a broadly chronological narrative and his attempt to blend historiographic explication with social and state theory. In the first two volumes of The Sources of Social Power (1986, 1993), in his most recent book Incoherent Empire (2003) and in a series of shorter works, Mann presents an important contribution to our understanding of long-term continuity and change from what he calls 'the beginning' to the contemporary world. Of the wide-ranging response which Mann's writing has provoked, perhaps the most enduring has been focused on his particular use of method, narrative and historiography. This article aims to unpack his contribution in these areas by highlighting four inter-related features which distinguish Mann's work from that of his contemporaries within neo-Weberian sociology. It will, firstly, locate Mann's position within the broad spectrum of macro-historical approaches, before going on to outline some of the debates which it has prompted or of which it is a part. In all, it will argue that Mann's use of method, narrative and historiography has significantly contributed to our understanding of large-scale social change.

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John Goldthorpe and the Relics of Sociology

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The short happy life of the affluent working class: Consumption, debt and Embourgeoisement in the Age of Credit

The short happy life of the affluent working class: Consumption, debt and Embourgeoisement in the Age of Credit

TheBritish Journal of Sociologyin the 1990s: disintegration and disarray?¹

Method, Narrative and Historiography in Michael Mann's Sociology of State Development

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