Students are to read and present papers by Richard Breen and Michael Tåhlin.  

The main focus of the practical session is the contemporary debates about social classes. What is a driving force of class advantage? Is it about skills of workers or reciprocal dependence between workers and employes? To what extent the early works of Marx and Weber can guide a contemporary researcher? And what kind of data and empirical analysis are necessary to find a possible answer to these questions? 

 

1. Breen, R. 2005. “A Weberian Approach to Class Analysis” in Erik Olin Wright (ed.)

Alternative Foundations of Class Analysis, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 31-50.  

 

2. Tahlin, M. 2007. “Class Clues”. European Sociological Review, 23(5): 557- 572.