In Defense of Class Wars in Population Health: The New Landscape of Social Class With Bourdieu, Neo-Marxists, and the Kohn/Schooler/Wright Integrative Models

Carles Muntaner; Virginia Gunn

doi:10.1177/0020731418818409

In Defense of Class Wars in Population Health: The New Landscape of Social Class With Bourdieu, Neo-Marxists, and the Kohn/Schooler/Wright Integrative Models

Carles Muntaner, Virginia Gunn

Department of Public Health Sciences

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Abstract

The field of social inequalities in health has been dominated by an individual attributes approach with a small number of indicators, namely occupation, income, and education. We review the weakness of this approach and detail the emergence of sociological alternatives tied to the writings of Bourdieu, Marx, and Weber. A particularly rich theoretical development stems from the integration of Weberian and Marxian approaches, associated with sociologists Melvin Kohn, Carmi Schooler, and Erik Olin Wright.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	102-107
Number of pages	6
Journal	International Journal of Health Services
Volume	49
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0020731418818409
Publication status	Published - 2019 Jan 1

Keywords

health equity
population health
social class
social inequalities in health

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