Unholy Pleasure: The Idea of Social Class

by P.N. Furbank

This volume explores how our ideas about social class originated and have developed, focusing on the purpose of using "class" terminology. Furbank discusses what Marx meant by "bourgeois," the validity of historians and sociologists' uses of the term "class," and the motives of those who take "unholy pleasure" in finding class amusing, as well covering more concrete topics such as the master-servant relationship and the popularity of etiquette books...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192851470
• ISBN13: 9780192851475
• Release Date: September 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 8.3"