Class And Class Conflict In An Industrial Society

by Ralf Dahrendorf

Sixth Printing 1967. Tight binding and clean pages

Genres: Sociology, Philosophy, Politics, Economics, Class, Social Science

352 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1959

About the author

Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician. A class conflict theorist, Dahrendorf was a leading expert on explaining and analysing class divisions in modern society. Dahrendorf wrote multiple articles and books, his most notable being Class and Conflict in Industrial Society (1959) and Essays in the Theory of Society (1968).

During his political career, he was a Member of the German Parliament, Parliamentary Secretary of State at the Foreign Office of Germany, European Commissioner for Trade, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Education and Member of the British House of Lords, after he was created a life peer in 1993. He was subsequently known in the United Kingdom as Lord Dahrendorf.

He served as director of the London School of Economics and Warden of St Antony's College, University of Oxford. He also served as a professor of sociology at a number of universities in Germany and the United Kingdom and was a research professor at the Berlin Social Science Research Center.

Reviews

[nettie]

já jsem tak confused. nesouhlasím s ničím v téhle knize, ale nevím jestli typek jen cituje ostatní nebo jsou to jeho přesvědčení

[Oz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite a good critique of marxism but extremely talkative as the author tries to explore the pinnacle of definitionism before getting to his arguments.

[Nick · Rating 2 out of 5]

I will say that Ralf seems like he is probably a very nice man.

[Andrea Smith]

good