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Concepts Of Class And Stratification: Essays On Max Weber, Talcott Parsons And Karl Marx, Lynn Susan Levine

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The division of society into classes and the determination of social life according to the exigencies of this division has provided, since the middle of the nineteenth century, the basis for the whole of the self-conception of Marxist social science. Class as an historical presupposition, as a “sociological datum,” etc., provides not only the ultimate subject matter of the Marxian social sciences but the basis for a methodological critique of the social sciences as a whole. To this extent the concept of class has been simultaneously excluded from any systematic conceptual derivation and considered the necessary logical basis for all …