THE CLASS STRUCTURE OF THE ADVANCED SOCIETIES : (Harper Torchbooks, TB 1845)

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1975. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Inked check marks to pg 1 of Contents & pg 33, else As NEW. 1975 First Edition, 4th Printing. Softcover/VG; sound w/rubs to all leading edge & surface, & light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to text blocks. PO name to first title page. Stimulating study of sociological class structure of modern societies by prominent British scholar Anthony Giddens (1938 - ). Critical examination of classic writings of Max Weber & Karl Marx on social classes & economic issues versus Capitalism. 336 pgs. in 15 chapters. 1, Marx's Theory of Classes; 2, The Weberian Critique; 3, Some Later Theories; 4, Marx's Critics A Critique; 5, The Marxian Standpoint Reassessed; 6, Rethinking the Theory of Class (I); 7, Rethinking the Theory of Class (II); 8, The Problem of Capitalist Development; 9, The Institutional Mediation of Power & Mediation of Control; 10,The Growth of the New Middle Class; 11, The Working Class in Capitalist Society; 12, State Socialism & Class Saturation; 13, Class & Party in State Socialist Society; 14, Classes in Contemporary Society; and 15, The Future of Class Society.