Klasy w postnarodowych społeczeństwach. Socjologia klas według Michèle Lamont
Classes in Post-national Societies. Sociology of Classes According to Michèle Lamont

Summary/Abstract: Sociology of classes of Michele Lamont, which was developed in a dialogue withPierre Bourdeu’s theory of classes, is a separate and original proposal of studieson classes. It is to be based on analyses of group identification articulation thatare used by actors for self-defining, but at the same time also imply the process ofdefining and drawing symbolic boundaries between classes. However, these boundariestend to differ from the boundaries defined in the analyses of economic resourcesand the social and demographic diversity. Lamont creates and develops her theoryagainst two major challenges that theories of classes face: international comparisonswhich would focus on cultural distinctions and avoid methodological nationalism,similarly to Bourdieu’s theory. The second challenge would be the forms of socialdiversity, which are not likely to occur in class analyses, such as racial or genderdiversity, and seem to be essential to understand contemporary diversity of societies.

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