Dick Houtman: 2 books
Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science
Marxism Lite and Its Blind Spot for Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Dick Houtman argues that neither authoritarianism nor libertarianism can be explained by class or economic background, but rather by position in the cultural domain-- what he calls cultural capital. Although he examines all of the statistics and arguments of the conventional approaches with care and...
Paradoxes of Individualization
Social Control and Social Conflict in Contemporary Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Paradoxes of Individualization addresses one of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary sociology: whether a process of individualization is liberating selves from society so as to make them the authors of their personal biographies. The book adopts a cultural-sociological approach that firmly...