MODERN SOOETY IN CLASSES MODERN in SOCIETY T. B. Bottoinore Department ofPoliticalScience, Sociologyand Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, Canada CLASSES MODERN in SOCIETY VINTAGE BOOKS A Division of Randomllotise New York ©Copyright, 1966, byT. B. Bottomore Allrightsreservedunder InternationalandPan-American CopyrightConventions. Publishedin London, England, by GeorgeAllen b- Unwin Ltd. ® 1965, by GeorgeAllenir Unwin Ltd. MANUFACTUREDINTHEUNITEDSTATESOF AMERICA Contents Introduction 3 I n The Nature of Social Class 9 in Classes in the Industrial Societies 36 IV Social Class, Politics and Culture 76 Postscript to the American Edition 101 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 113 INDEX 119 1 CLASSES MODERN in SOCIETY