- A Note on Terminology
- Introduction
- 1. Class Structure
- 1.1. Culture and Social Structure
- 1.2. How Class Structure Is Different
- 1.3. Two Models of Cultural Influence
- 1.4. The Causal Autonomy of Class Structure
- 2. Class Formation
- 2.1. Why Should Workers Resist?
- 2.2. From Universal Antagonism to Universal Resistance
- 2.3. Two Strategies of Resistance
- 2.4. Bringing Culture Back In
- 2.5. Culture Constrained
- 2.6. Back to Structure
- 3. Consent, Coercion, and Resignation
- 3.1. The Turn to Consent
- 3.2. Consent and the Reality of Class
- 3.3. The Material Basis of Consent
- 3.4. The Problem with Consent
- 3.5. From Consent to Resignation
- 3.6. The Place of Ideology
- 3.7. The New Left’s Folly
- 4. Agency, Contingency, and All That
- 4.1. A Reprise
- 4.2. Agents and Automatons
- 4.3. Too Little Contingency?
- 4.4. Too Much Contingency?
- 4.5. Contingency within Limits
- 5. How Capitalism Endures
- 5.1. The Growth Phase of the First Left
- 5.2. From Consent to Resignation
- 5.3. The Class Matrix Today
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index


The Class Matrix
Social Theory after the Cultural Turn
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$35.00 • £28.95 • €31.50
ISBN 9780674245136
Publication Date: 02/08/2022
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