Gianluca Tatarelli

Social class: My research in this area is aimed, first, at the reconstruction of a theory of social class capable of accounting for the complexity of class structures in advanced capitalist societies. Second, it focuses on the empirical use of a new class schema for the study of a range of social phenomena, from structural forms of economic and social inequality to different forms of political participation – Political participation: My research in this field is devoted to the description and explanation of certain forms of political participation (e.g., political parties and social movements), with particular attention to class‑based forms of social agency and to the processes through which such forms are organized, constrained, and contained. In addition, I am especially concerned with the empirical investigation of issues raised by theories of democracy and the public sphere – Social theory: My work in social theory focuses on the reconstruction of some of the main categories and concepts of social theory, with particular reference to critical and neo‑Marxist traditions (e.g. power, domination, exploitation), as well as on the structural connection between theoretical and empirical research – Social research methodology: My research in this area is concerned with the critical reception and dissemination, within sociological research, of techniques and methods of social research employed both in traditional quantitative areas of sociology and in other disciplinary fields (such as psychometrics and econometrics) – Marxism: My research in this area intersects with the fields outlined above and concerns both the original contribution my work aims to offer to the heterodox neo‑Marxist tradition – within a broader program of analytical reconstruction of Marxist theory –and the study, from the perspective of intellectual sociology, of the history of twentieth‑century Marxisms.