1. Is the Concept of Class War Still Valid THE CONCEPT OF CLASS WAR STILL VALID?
In this essay I shall first briefly outline the history of the concept of 'class' and then evaluate this concept in modern terms with specific reference to two key papers, by Pahl (1989) and Goldthorpe and Marshall (1992). It was the social contract theorists, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, who first arrived at explanations of inequality in the eighteenth century. ... It was Karl Marx was first scrutinised the 'bourgeois freedoms' created by the English and French revolutions. ... One of the main sources of empirical evidence for arguments concerning the declining significanc...
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