
Ruling Class, Ruling Culture
R. W. Connell(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 17. February 1977
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-521-29133-0 (ISBN)
Description
This is a study of the Australian ruling class - the main companies, the leading political groups and the links and conflicts among them. The author also analyses class inequalities in education, the development of children's ideas about class, the role of the mass media and the way class relations are cemented culturally and psychologically. He introduces his book with a brief discussion of the literature on class theory, and a critical evaluation of Australian writing on class. Professor Connell's major aims are to describe and analyse Australia in the 1970s, to show how class theory is a useful tool in understanding the situation and to develop the theory by working through some practical cases. Apart from its obvious importance for Australian readers, this book should be of interest in other countries, both for comparison and for its original ideas on a number of important issues, such as conflict in the ruling class, and class consciousness in young people.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
377 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-29133-0 (9780521291330)
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Ruling Class, Ruling Culture
Book
02/1977
Cambridge University Press
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Content
Preface; 1. Approach to class analysis; 2. The idea of class in Australian social science; Part I. The Ruling Class: 3. The structure of the ruling class; 4. The major companies; 5. Conflict in the ruling class, 1970-1972; 6. Ruling-class responses to Labor, 1973-1975; Part II. The Ruling Culture: 7. Class consciousness in childhood; 8. Class and personal socialization; 9. The media and middle-class culture; 10. The pattern of hegemony; Notes.