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Re: The Teixeira thesis

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From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>

This finally sank through to me only a couple days ago while reading
some material on class. I haven't got it clear yet, but this is a start.
Why do we _want_ to classify people into classes? Answer: No reason at
all.


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http://www.sup.org/cgi-bin/search/book_desc.cgi?book_id=3804%203806
The Classless Society

Paul W. Kingston

Are there classes in America? In The Classless Society Paul Kingston
forcefully answers no. Challenging a long-standing intellectual tradition
of class analysis recently revitalized by Erik Olin Wright and John
Goldthorpe, and insisting on a realist conception of class, Kingston
argues that presumed "classes" do not significantly share distinct,
life-defining experiences.

280 pages, 23 tables, 1 figure, 2000.
ISBN 0804738068 paper ISBN 0804738041 cloth
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