Unholy Pleasure: The Idea of Social Class

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This volume explores how our ideas about social class originated and have developed, focusing on the purpose of using "class" terminology. Furbank discusses what Marx meant by "bourgeois," the validity of historians and sociologists' uses of the term "class," and the motives of those who take "unholy pleasure" in finding class amusing, as well covering more concrete topics such as the master-servant relationship and the popularity of etiquette books...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0192851470

ISBN13:9780192851475

Release Date:September 1987

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:158 Pages

Weight:0.30 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.1" x 8.3"

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