The middle class or you only live twice

• Authors: Tittenbrun Jacek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The main thrust of the paper could be brought down to the thesis that the concept of middle class is an oxymoron. This is the case because there is a contradiction between the associations pertaining to the adjective part of the term in question and those pertinent to its noun part. “The middle” is a hierarchical term, which fits social stratification rather than class, as class relations generally have a more complex character. The said confusion matters because of some important weaknesses of stratification approaches.

Keywords

EN

social stratification; class; social differentiation; Warner Marx; Weber them; middle class

• Publisher: Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki Euroregionalnej im. Alcide De Gasperi w Józefowie
• Journal: Journal of Modern Science
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 4(27)
• Pages: 479-500

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Tittenbrun Jacek

• Ordinary Professor Chair of Social Differentiation Institute of Sociology A. Mickiewicz Univ., Poznań

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ISSN

1734-2031