Transclasses : a theory of social non-reproduction /

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Author / Creator:Jaquet, Chantal, author.
Uniform title:Transclasses. English
Imprint:London ; New York : Verso Books, 2023.
Description:ix, 192 pages ; 21 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13159770
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Other authors / contributors:Elliott, Gregory, translator.
ISBN:1839768851
9781839768859
Notes:"First published as Les transclasses ou la non-reproduction © Presses Universitaires de France 2014"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"One is not born a worker or a boss. Social reproduction is not an iron law; it admits of exceptions that must be accounted for in order to measure its scope. This book aims to understand the passage from one social class to another and to forge a method of approaching these particular cases which remain a blind spot in the theory of social reproduction. It analyzes the political, economic, social, familial and singular causes that contribute to non-reproduction, and their effects on the constitution of individuals transiting from one class to another. At the crossroads of collective history and intimate history, Chantal Jaquet identifies class locations, the interplay of affects and encounters, and the role of sexual and racial differences. She invites us to break out of disciplinary isolation in order to grasp singularity at the crossroads of philosophy, sociology, psychology and literature"--Penguin Random House website.

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