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Chapter 19

John Scott’s research papers

http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~scottj/paperslist.htm

Find out what one of the authors of the textbook has to say about social class! This page is a link from John Scott’s personal homepage and contains further links to his articles on class, status and stratification. They will help you to understand some of the current debates in this area, as well as providing a good example of how to write academically.



Marx/Engels library

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/

This archive is the best place to go online to find the original works of Marx & Engels. You can read all of the famous texts about social class here, including The Communist Manifesto and Capital, as well as search for keywords and find quotations. Everything is presented in a very user-friendly style, and this would be an excellent resource for anyone who wants to study Marx’s work in detail.



The Labour Force Survey

http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/lfsTitles.asp

Part of the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex, this site presents information and data from the Labour Force Survey, which assesses the income levels, household structure and training/qualifications of the working population. You can read a summary of how and why the survey has been conducted since 1973, as well as discover related datasets and websites. To download the actual data from the surveys, you need to have registered with the Data Archive, so check with your department or register an individual account online.



Social Inequality and Class

http://www.pscw.uva.nl/sociosite/TOPICS/Inequality.html

Compiled by Albert Benschop at the University of Amsterdam, this site provides an invaluable source of information about social class, inequality and stratification. It consists of annotated links to numerous other sites, including working papers, survey data and excerpts from the texts of Goldthorpe, Wright and Dahrendorf. This site is full of information on a wide range of areas, and could be helpful if you are trying to develop a research question.



Class Action

http://www.classism.org/

This is a website about ‘classism’ – discrimination on the grounds of social class. It is a US-based organisation that aims to raise awareness and promote discussion about classism. The site contains an interesting range of articles and papers, as well as information about new books on the subject, upcoming events, and training workshops.



Social Class – links

http://qb.soc.surrey.ac.uk/resources/links/classlink_uk.htm

This is a very useful page of resources and website links, forming part of the ‘Question Bank’ at the University of Surrey. It is intended to help you plan your own research, for example by designing questionnaire items that tap into empirical indicators of phenomena like social class. This page contains some extremely useful links to various socio-economic classification scales and schema, including those by David Rose and the official occupational scale used by the Office of National Statistics. There are also links to other websites about social class, inequality and stratification, plus discussion lists and bibliographic references.