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Rethinking Social Class: Qualitative Perspectives on Class and Gender

This paper draws on data from a qualitative study of mothers' involvement in children's education in order to present a different perspective on gender and class from those embedded in contemporary dominant discourses on social class. It argues that class is a complicated mixture of the material, the discursive, psychological predispositions and sociological dispositions. As such, the ways in which class as a complex set of interrelated issues contributes to social inequalities are best understood by combining quantitative approaches to social class with more qualitative studies which attempt to explore how class, and the inequalities it generates, are lived in gendered and raced ways.

Key Words: class • discourses • gender • qualitative methods • social processes

Sociology, Vol. 32, No. 2, 259-275 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/0038038598032002003


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