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This chapter uses a Marxist perspective to deal with the relationship between social class, society and education. It initially focuses on the measurement of social class, drawing on Weberian ‘gradational’ and Marxist ‘relational’ classifications and definitions of class. The chapter then presents some of the main concepts of Marxist social class analysis and relates these concepts to Marxist theory of education. It concludes by differentiating between two types of Marxist analysis—Structuralist neo-Marxism and Culturalist neo-Marxism, and by arguing for a revolutionary Marxist programme to replace, overcome, overthrow and go beyond capitalism, to abolish the Labour–Capital relation, to progress into a democratic Socialist society.
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Hill, D. (2018). Education, Social Class and Marxist Theory. In: Simmons, R., Smyth, J. (eds) Education and Working-Class Youth. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90671-3_8
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