The Moral Significance of Class - Softcover

Sayer, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521616409 ISBN 13: 9780521616409

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Class affects not only our material wealth but our access to relationships and practices which we have reason to value, including the esteem or respect of others and hence our sense of self-worth. It determines the kind of people we become and our chances of living a fulfilling life. Applying concepts from moral philosophy and social theory to empirical studies of class, this accessible study demonstrates how people are valued in a context of the lottery of birth class, or forces having little to do with moral qualities or other merits.

About this title

Book Description:

The Moral Significance of Class analyses the moral aspects of people's experience of class inequalities. By drawing upon concepts from moral philosophy and social theory and applying them to empirical studies of class, this fascinating and accessible study shows how people are valued in a context in which their life-chances and achievements are objectively affected by the lottery of birth class, and by forces which have little to do with their moral qualities or other merits.

About the Author:

Andrew Sayer is Professor of Social Theory and Political Economy at the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University. His publications include Microcircuits of Capital (1988, with K. J. Morgan), Method in Social Science (1992), The New Social Economy (1992, with R. A. Walker), Radical Political Economy: A Critique (1995), and Realism and Social Science (2000), and over eighty articles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0521616409
• ISBN 13: 9780521616409
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256