Contemporary Class Analysis: Does Class Still Exist?
Contemporary class analysis must embrace the study of a wider range of social relationships than just those located within the sphere of work and production. Patterns of consumption and the lifestyles and opportunities that they facilitate have become particularly important in understanding the divisons and inequality on which the system of stratification is based in modern industrial societies.
Some post-modern theorists have gone even further by questioning whether class still exists. Jan Pakulski and Malcolm Water (1996) argue that classes exist only if there is 'minimum level of clustering , or groupness ' and such clusterings or groupness are no longer evident. People no longer feel that they belong to class groupings, and members of
Some post-modern theorists have gone even further by questioning whether class still exists. Jan Pakulski and Malcolm Water (1996) argue that classes exist only if there is 'minimum level of clustering , or groupness ' and such clusterings or groupness are no longer evident. People no longer feel that they belong to class groupings, and members of