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The Rise of Professional Society lays out a stimulating and controversial framework for the study of British society, challenging accepted paradigms based on class analysis. Perkins argues that the non-capitalist "professional class" represents a new principle of social organization based on trained expertise and meritocracy, a "forgotten middle class" conveniently overlooked by classical social theorists.
| ISBN | 0415301785 | | Pages | 632 | | ISBN13 | 9780415301787
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 793 | | Imprint | Routledge | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780415049757 | | Publication date | 31 Oct 2002 | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Library of Congress | 2002068329 | | Width (mm) | 140 | | DEWEY | 305.5530942 | | Spine width (mm) | 35 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | Introduction to the 2002 edition | | | | | | Preface to the first edition | | | | 1 | | The meaning of professional society | | | | 1 | | Class versus hierarchy | | | | 2 | | Professional rivalries and the state | | | | 3 | | The culmination of the Industrial Revolution | | | | 2 | | The zenith of class society | | | | 1 | | The height of inequality | | | | 2 | | The climacteric of British capitalism | | | | 3 | | The decline of Liberal England | | | | 4 | | The fear of the poor | | | | 3 | | A segregated society | | | | 1 | | The rich and the powerful | | | | 2 | | The riven middle class | | | | 3 | | Lives apart: the remaking of the working class | | | | 4 | | Class society and the professional ideal | | | | 1 | | The professional social ideal | | | | 2 | | Professionalism and property | | | | 3 | | The defence of property | | | | 4 | | The professional ideal and the origins of the welfare state | | | | 5 | | The crisis of class society | | | | 1 | | The aborted pre-war crisis | | | | 2 | | The supreme test of class society | | | | 3 | | The crisis averted | | | | 6 | | A halfway house: society in war and peace | | | | 1 | | The great divide, 1914-18 | | | | 2 | | Social change between the wars | | | | | More... | | |
'A true magnum opus. No social historian can afford not to read it.' Asa Briggs'Accessible to the general reader, indispensable to the scholar and a solid achievement of synthesis and clarity.' The Observer  Be the first to write a customer review
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