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Class consciousness and national contexts: Canada, Sweden and the United States in historical perspective.
- Source :
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Canadian Review of Sociology & Anthropology . May93, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p271-295. 25p. 4 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 1993
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Abstract
- This paper explores the variation in class consciousness in three Western democracies: Canada, Sweden and the United States. Its main empirical finding is that Swedish levels of working class identification, conflict consciousness and capacity to envisage an alternative form of social organization are considerably higher than their North American counterparts. While this finding is not surprising to comparative political sociologists, it does provide an occasion for an argument that the differences were basically established in the postwar period and are the product of the different outcomes of the social conflict that surrounded the Great Depression. In its reduced form, our argument is that outcomes of social conflict have had an impact on the distribution of social power and the working classes' sense of collective efficacy which, in turn, have profoundly influenced the consolidation and extension of class consciousness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *SOCIAL classes
*DEMOCRACY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00084948
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Canadian Review of Sociology & Anthropology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 9308306899
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-618X.1993.tb00175.x