The Rise of Professional Society: England Since 1880

ISBN-13: 9780415301787 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 632 str.

Harold James Perkin;Perkin Harold; Harold Perkin

Opis

Challenging accepted paradigms based on class analysis, this volume lays out a controversial framework for the study of British society. Harold Perkin 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.

Recenzje

'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

O autorze

Professor Harold Perkin, Harold Perkin