The Class Matrix: Social Theory After the Cultural Turn Chibber Vivek
The Class Matrix: Social Theory After the Cultural Turn Chibber Vivek An influential sociologist revives materialist explanations of class, while accommodating the best of rival cultural…
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The Class Matrix: Social Theory After the Cultural Turn Chibber Vivek
An influential sociologist revives materialist explanations of class, while accommodating the best of rival cultural theory.Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, analysis of class and other basic structures of capitalism was sidelined by theorists who argued that social and economic life is reducible to culture--that our choices reflect interpretations of the world around us rather than the limitations imposed by basic material facts. But it would be a mistake to pretend that the cultural turn never happened. Today, capitalism is back on the agenda, as gross inequalities in wealth and power have pushed scholars to reopen materialist lines of inquiry.
Vivek Chibber instead engages cultural theory seriously, proposing a fusion of materialism and the most useful insights of its rival.Chibber shows that it is possible to accommodate the main arguments from the
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