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Debates over the Weberian programme for class analysis have involved a number of unresolved theoretical problems. It is argued that these problems can be resolved only if the theoretical foundations of the programme are clarified. In particular, the Weberian distinction between 'class situation' and 'social class', along with the distinction between 'class' and 'status', must be used to resolve the questions of the demographic formation of social classes, the individual and the family household as units of analysis, and the relationship between gender and class., Introduction The future of class analysis has recently been debated in this journal (Goldthorpe and Marshall 1992; Pahl 1992). A Weberian programme has been defended by Goldthorpe and Marshall in [...]

This book uses an analysis of the class-basis of the business enterprise as a tool for the criticism of notions of 'pluralism' and the 'liberal society'. Such ideological conceptions, argues [...]