Gordon Marshall

The Leverhulme Trust

Although there is an extensive and varied literature on the nature and consequences of unemployment very little has been written about the experiences of jobless women. This is unfortunate since there are good sociological reasons why the reactions to job loss among women may be different from those of men. Empirical data tend to support this expec...

This paper tests two of the major theses in the literature on popular beliefs about distributive justice, using attitudinal data from linked sample surveys fielded in thirteen established Westerndemocratic and newly post-communist industrial nations. One is the speculation that levels of public support for distributions in accordance with desert-ty...

This article offers a defence of the methods and findings of what some critics have referred to as the 'Nuffield school of class analysis'. In particular, we respond to the critique mounted by Hellevik and Ringen, whose most recent publication appeared in an earlier volume of this journal. We argue that these authors adopt an arbitrary and essentia...

The relation between social class and social justice is currently a matter of public as well as academic controversy. Some analysts see existing patterns of social mobility as evidence of inequality of opportunity, while others regard them as meritocratic, simply reflecting the distribution of ability and motivation among the population. This artic...

Les AA. examinent les analyses de P. Saunders. Ce dernier avait propose une analyse de la societe britannique et s'etait interroge sur la nature meritocratique de celle-ci. Ils affirment que Saunders n'a pas etudie attentivement les travaux menes sur cette question. Ils montrent comment celui-ci definit la meritocratie comme liee a une situation so...

Little is known about patterns of intergenerational social mobility in the former Soviet Union. Extant studies are unrepresentative or methodologically problematic. Using a new national sample from Russia, this paper examines absolute mobility rates for each sex, and relative rates for Russia in relation to Britain. It argues that, contrary to the...

The asymmetry hypothesis is central to current controversy about the unit of class composition. It is argued by those who support a conventional approach to class analysis that marital partners themselves recognise that it is the occupational position of the husband that confers status on the household in modern industrial societies. This paper con...

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Presents empirical examples that illustrate the kinds of difficulties encountered by researchers on distributive justice. Difficulties discussed include different justice norms in different spheres, individual inconsistencies (IICs), the nature of justice judgments, and IIC and cognitive strain. These examples underscore that it is difficult to asc...

This paper poses the issue of distributive justice in terms of the relationship between social class, social mobility and educational attainment, in contemporary Britain. Having discussed various conceptions of justice which might vindicate class inequality, the authors investigate empirically the specifically meritocratic defence, and report surve...

Class analysis has recently been criticised from a variety of standpoints. In this paper we argue that much of this criticism is misplaced and that, as a research programme, the promise of class analysis is far from exhausted. The first part of the paper clarifies the nature and purpose of class analysis, as we would understand it, and in particula...

The Australian researchers offer one apparently damning criticism of Social Class in Modern Britain. Our treatment of the British survey findings on class identity are 'the height of sociological naivety', since we 'blandly inform readers' that social class identities have retained their salience, 'without any apparent reflection as to [the] veraci...

Four different versions of the currently fashionable thesis of proletarianization in the class structure are identified. The central propositions of the argument are then tested empirically with reference to the class mobility experiences of a representative sample of men and women in Britain. An appropriate shift share analysis confirms that, thou...

This paper reports some of the central findings of a British project on class structure and class consciousness, and relates these to the results of comparable studies in other countries, particularly those for Sweden and the United States. It raises conceptual, operational, and substantive problems with regard to the neo-Marxist class theory of Er...

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Liberal theories of post-industrial society and Marxist theories of the labour process tend to converge in their respective accounts of the place of supervisors in relation to putative changes in the organisation of work. A common conjecture is that supervisors are progressively being denuded of their powers and functions within industry. This pape...

This paper challenges the widely held view that novel and fundamental changes in the structure of social hierarchy have altered the basis of distributional conflict in modern Britain. Reference to nineteenth-century developments shows that sectionalism, egoism and privatism are not peculiar to the present economic recession. It is then argued that...

The authors are at present researching the impact of economic recession on class processes in contemporary Britain. The first stage of their study involves a national sample survey of 2000 people between the ages of 16 and 64. This has been linked to an international project on class structure and class consciousness originating from the USA. Many...

This article deals with certain aspects of British economic decline. After a short historical review of British economic performance, the phenomenon of deindustrialization is examined. Two major economic theories of deindustrialization are discussed alongside empirical evidence of the recent, rapid decline in Britain's manufacturing base and its wo...

Sociologists of crime and deviance have devoted considerable time and effort, in recent years, to the study of deviants' accounts of their activities. There are good reasons why students of deviance in particular should be interested in what can be learned from their subjects' explanations of their social practices. Actors are normally called to ac...

Traducción de: In Search of the Spirit of Capitalism. An Essay on Max Weber's Protestant Ethic Thesis

BLDSC reference no.: D26935/79. Thesis (D. Phil.)--University of Oxford, 1978. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [655]-694).