現代社会科学における階級と政治学<br>Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science : Marxism Lite and Its Blind Spot for Culture

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現代社会科学における階級と政治学
Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science : Marxism Lite and Its Blind Spot for Culture

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基本説明

Examines the leading theories that the author calls "Marxist lite", all of them sharing the assumption that class or economic background determines people's moral and political values.

Full Description

Dick Houtman argues that neither authoritarianism nor libertarianism can be explained by class or economic background, but rather by position in the cultural domain-- what he calls cultural capital. Although he examines all of the statistics and arguments of the conventional approaches with care and concern, Houtman convincingly demonstrates that the conclusions drawn from earlier studies are untenable at a more general theoretical level. Despite differences among advocates of class explanations, their theories are based on largely identical research findings--in particular a strong negative relationship between education and authoritarianism. Unobstructed by the conclusions these authors felt called upon to draw from the findings themselves, Houtman configures them in a new way. The hypotheses derived from this new theory allow for a systematic, strict, and competitive testing of original theses without ignoring the value of and earlier research. After demonstrating that authoritarianism and libertarianism cannot be explained by class or economic background, Houtman examines the implications of this argument for today's death of class debate in political sociology. He holds it to be unfortunate that the relevance of class to politics is typically addressed by studying the relation between class and voting. This conceals a complex cross-pressure mechanism that causes this relationship to capture the net balance of class voting and its opposite, cultural voting, instead of class voting. He argues that references to a decline in class voting may be basically correct, but dogmatic reliance on the relation between class and voting to prove the point systematically underestimates levels of class voting and produces an exaggerated picture of the decline.

Contents

Preface, 1. Marxism Lite: Modernity, Industrialism, and Culture, 2. What Is Actually a Class? Martin Lipset and Working-Class Authoritarianism, 3. What About Occupational Self-Direction? Melvin Kohn and Working-Class Authoritarianism, 4. Is Postmaterialism Really Different from Libertarianism? And Can It Be Explained Materialistically?, 5. Why Are There So Many Postmaterialists in Affluent Countries? An International Comparison, 6. Who Votes for Whom? And Why Exactly? Class, Cultural Capital, and Voting Behavior, 7. Has There Really Been a Decline in Class Voting? Class Voting and Cultural Voting in Britain, 1974-1997, 8. Conclusion: Marxism Lite and Its Blind Spot for Culture, Appendix: Secondary Data Sources, References, Index