1. Bradley, H. Fractured Identities, Cambridge, Polity, 1996. A wide-ranging attempt to synthesize the inequalities of class, gender, ‘race’ and age.
2. Buder, T. and Savage, M. (eds) Social Change and the Middle Classes, London, UCL Press, 1996. A range of papers focusing on different aspects of the continuing expansion of the ‘middle classes’.
3. Crompton, R. Class and Stratification, 2nd edn, Cambridge, Polity, 1998. A revised and updated edition of the 1993 textbook, covering the different theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of class.
4. Lee, D. and Turner, B. Conflicts over Class, London, Longman, 1996. Organized around the debate relating to the ‘death of class’.
5. Scott, J. Stratification and Power, Cambridge, Polity, 1997. A contemporary version of the ‘Weberian’ approach to class analysis by an author who has carried out extensive research on the ‘ruling class’.