'A way of struggle': Reformations and affirmations of E. P. Thompson's class analysis in the light of postmodern theories of language

British Journal of Sociology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 471-492

  Steinberg, Marc W ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Class struggle; Dialogism; Hegemony; Language; Marxism; Postmodernism

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; REVIEW; SOCIAL CLASS;

CULTURE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0031218038     PISSN: 00071315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/591141     Document Type: Article

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