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| Author: | Savage, M. Warde, A. Devine, f. |
| Title: | Capitals, assets, and resources: some critical issues |
| Journal: | British Journal of Sociology
2005 : MAR, VOL. 56:1, p. 31-47 |
| Index terms: | assets capital resources social structure |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The potential of Bourdieu's approach to capital as a way of understanding class dynamics is explored in contemporary capitalism. Recent rethinking of class analysis has sought to move beyond what Rosemary Crompton (1998) calls the "employment aggregate approach", one which involves categorizing people into class groups according to whether they have certain attributes. Instead, recent contributions by Pierre Bourdieu, Erik Wright, Aage Sorensen and Charles Tilly have concentrated on understanding the mechanisms that produce class inequalities. Concepts such as assets, capitals and resources (CARs) are often used to explain how class inequalities are produced, but there remain ambiguities and differences in how such terms are understood. This article identifies problems faced both by game theoretical Marxism and by the rational choice approach of Goldthorpe in developing an adequate approach to CARs. |
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