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Transclasses: A Theory of Social Non-Reproduction

Transclasses: A Theory of Social Non-Reproduction

Jaquet, Chantal

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PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 1839768851
ISBN13: 9781839768859
Publisher: Verso
Published: May 30 2023
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
How people become class traitors

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.

This requires deconstruction of the concepts of social and personal identity, in favour of a concepts like complexion and the criss-crossing determinations. Through the figure of the transclass, it is thus the whole human condition that is illuminated in a new light.

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