Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science (Sociological Imagination and Structural Change)

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 concern, Houtman convincingly demonstrates that the conclusions drawn from earlier studies are untenable at a more general theoretical level.Dick Houtman is the author of 'Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science (Sociological Imagination and Structural Change)', published 2004 under ISBN 9780202306889 and ISBN 0202306887.