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2. Chapter 3 Social Spaces

Author

Atkinson, Will

Subjects
social spaces, class, societies, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
Abstract

"This first volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies offers a bold and wide-ranging assessment of the shape and effects of class systems across a diverse range of capitalist nations. Plumbing a trove of data and deploying cutting-edge techniques, it carefully maps the distribution of the key sources of power and documents the major convergences and divergences between market societies old and new. Establishing that the multidimensional vision of class proposed decades ago by Pierre Bourdieu appears to hold good throughout Europe, parts of the wider Western world and Eastern Asia, the book goes on to examine a number of significant themes: the relationship between class and occupation; the intersection of class with gender, religion, geography and age; the correspondences between social position and political attitudes; self-positioning in the class structure; and the extent of belief in meritocracy. For all the striking cross-national commonalities, however, the book unearths consistent variations seemingly linked to distinct politico-economic regimes. This title will appeal to scholars and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in sociology, politics and demography and is essential reading for all those interested in social class across the globe."

Published
2020

4. The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies

Author

Atkinson, Will

Subjects
Will, Atkinson, bounded, class, societies, space, structure, JF, JHB, bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general, bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology
Abstract

"This first volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies offers a bold and wide-ranging assessment of the shape and effects of class systems across a diverse range of capitalist nations. Plumbing a trove of data and deploying cutting-edge techniques, it carefully maps the distribution of the key sources of power and documents the major convergences and divergences between market societies old and new. Establishing that the multidimensional vision of class proposed decades ago by Pierre Bourdieu appears to hold good throughout Europe, parts of the wider Western world and Eastern Asia, the book goes on to examine a number of significant themes: the relationship between class and occupation; the intersection of class with gender, religion, geography and age; the correspondences between social position and political attitudes; self-positioning in the class structure; and the extent of belief in meritocracy. For all the striking cross-national commonalities, however, the book unearths consistent variations seemingly linked to distinct politico-economic regimes. This title will appeal to scholars and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in sociology, politics and demography and is essential reading for all those interested in social class across the globe."

Published
2020

19. The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies : Volume 1: A Space of Bounded Variety (Edition 1)

Author

Atkinson, Will

Subjects
Social Science, Social Science / Sociology
Abstract

This first volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies offers a bold and wide-ranging assessment of the shape and effects of class systems across a diverse range of capitalist nations. Plumbing a trove of data and deploying cutting-edge techniques, it carefully maps the distribution of the key sources of power and documents the major convergences and divergences between market societies old and new. Establishing that the multidimensional vision of class proposed decades ago by Pierre Bourdieu appears to hold good throughout Europe, parts of the wider Western world and Eastern Asia, the book goes on to examine a number of significant themes: the relationship between class and occupation; the intersection of class with gender, religion, geography and age; the correspondences between social position and political attitudes; self-positioning in the class structure; and the extent of belief in meritocracy. For all the striking cross-national commonalities, however, the book unearths consistent variations seemingly linked to distinct politico-economic regimes. This title will appeal to scholars and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in sociology, politics and demography, and is essential reading for all those interested in social class across the globe.

Published
2020

29. Marxism versus Bourdieu on domination, consciousness and resistance: An engagement with Burawoy on Bourdieu

Author

Atkinson, Will

Subjects
Cultural Studies, History, Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations
Abstract

Michael Burawoy’s recent book-length engagement with the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu constitutes, at root, a Marxist critique of its inability to conceive of the dominated as anything other than duped and submissive, despite this sitting uneasily with Bourdieu’s own research and political practice later in life. Burawoy wonders whether Bourdieusians will be able to recognise the limits of their master’s thought, and set about revising and extending it, in the same way as Marxists did of their own master. This article responds by doing precisely that. After clarifying a different reading of misrecognition, symbolic violence and habitus, it draws out a Bourdieusian theory of social change and a ‘thicker’ conception of contemporary social orders that can accommodate or dissolve Burawoy’s arguments while maintaining fundamental separation from the Marxist project.

Published
2023
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30. Risk of Lung Cancer Mortality in Nuclear Workers from Internal Exposure to Alpha Particle-emitting Radionuclides

Author

Grellier, James, Atkinson, Will, Bérard, Philippe, Bingham, Derek, Birchall, Alan, Blanchardon, Eric, Bull, Richard, Canu, Irina Guseva, Vathaire, Cécile Challeton-de, Cockerill, Rupert, Do, Minh T., Engels, Hilde, Figuerola, Jordi, Foster, Adrian, Holmstock, Luc, Hurtgen, Christian, Laurier, Dominique, Puncher, Matthew, Riddell, Anthony E., Samson, Eric, Thierry-Chef, Isabelle, Tirmarche, Margot, Vrijheid, Martine, and Cardis, Elisabeth

Published
2017

31. Field Theory and Assemblage Theory: Toward a Constructive Dialogue.

Author

Atkinson, Will

Subjects
*FIELD theory (Linguistics), *SKEPTICISM, *SOCIOLOGY
Abstract

This paper engages with Manuel DeLanda's Deleuze-inspired 'assemblage theory' from a perspective sympathetic to Pierre Bourdieu's field theory. It first outlines DeLanda's proposed new 'philosophy of society', focusing on his major works in this vein, and registers some scepticism as to its originality for sociology. It then introduces and responds to DeLanda's critique of Bourdieu. Rather than simply reject assemblage theory outright, however, I draw on selected insights from DeLanda to push field theory in new directions. More specifically, I conceptualise the interplay of fields and assemblages and use notions of 'exteriority' and 'possibility space' to help conceive individual plurality of social positioning and its effects for subjectivity and practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2024
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32. The German social space and its homologies: National variation on a basic structure.

Author

Atkinson, Will and Schmitz, Andreas

Subjects
*SOCIAL space, *POWER (Social sciences), *DIFFERENTIATION (Sociology), *CLUSTER analysis (Statistics), *WESTERN society, *CAPITALIST societies
Abstract

This article constructs a comprehensive new model of the contemporary class structure of Germany. More specifically, inspired by Pierre Bourdieu's geometric conception of class relations and drawing on original survey data, it adopts multiple correspondence analysis paired with cluster analysis to chart the German 'social space', that is, the relational configuration of key forms of capital. It then explores correspondences with occupational groups, ethnic groups, other demographic features, lifestyle practices and tastes. The results disclose specific structuring effects of German peculiarities on the distribution of social power, including East–West reunification and the long-running guestworker programme. More fundamentally, though, in its basic structure, the space resembles that mapped by Bourdieu in France and those documented by others elsewhere, suggesting common principles of social and symbolic differentiation among Western capitalist societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2024
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