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The Class Matrix - Social Theory after the Cultural Turn (Hardcover)
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The Class Matrix - Social Theory after the Cultural Turn (Hardcover)
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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. Today,
capitalism is back on the agenda, as gross inequalities in wealth
and power have pushed scholars to reopen materialist lines of
inquiry. But it would be a mistake to pretend that the cultural
turn never happened. 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 cultural turn within a
robust materialist framework: one can agree that the making of
meaning plays an important role in social agency, while still
recognizing the fundamental power of class structure and class
formation. Chibber vindicates classical materialism by
demonstrating that it in fact accounts for phenomena cultural
theorists thought it was powerless to explain. But he also shows
that aspects of class are indeed centrally affected by cultural
factors. The Class Matrix does not seek to displace culture from
the analysis of modern capitalism. Rather, in prose of exemplary
clarity, Chibber gives culture its due alongside what Marx called
"the dull compulsion of economic relations."
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