Ruling Class, Ruling Culture
Ruling Class, Ruling Culture
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USDThis is a study of the Australian ruling class - the main companies, the leading political groups and the links and conflicts among them. The author also analyses class inequalities in education, the development of children's ideas about class, the role of the mass media and the way class relations are cemented culturally and psychologically. He introduces his book with a brief discussion of the literature on class theory, and a critical evaluation of Australian writing on class. Professor Connell's major aims are to describe and analyse Australia in the 1970s, to show how class theory is a useful tool in understanding the situation and to develop the theory by working through some practical cases. Apart from its obvious importance for Australian readers, this book should be of interest in other countries, both for comparison and for its original ideas on a number of important issues, such as conflict in the ruling class, and class consciousness in young people.
Product details
April 1977Paperback
9780521291330
264 pages
217 × 140 × 16 mm
0.345kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Approach to class analysis
- 2. The idea of class in Australian social science
- Part I. The Ruling Class:
- 3. The structure of the ruling class
- 4. The major companies
- 5. Conflict in the ruling class, 1970–1972
- 6. Ruling-class responses to Labor, 1973–1975
- Part II. The Ruling Culture:
- 7. Class consciousness in childhood
- 8. Class and personal socialization
- 9. The media and middle-class culture
- 10. The pattern of hegemony
- Notes.
