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On the expansion of new theories and the withering away of old classes

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  1. Rutgers University, USA

    Irving Louis Horowitz (Hannah Arendt Professor of Sociology and Political Science)

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This study was supported by the New Class Study Project. It is herein published for the first time.

He is the editor-in-chief of Societymagazine and president of Transaction. He is the author of Ideology and Utopia in the United States 1956–1976and Genocide: State Power and Mass Murder.

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Horowitz, I.L. On the expansion of new theories and the withering away of old classes. Society 16, 55–62 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02712894

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