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Theological Complicity in the Disappearing of the Working Class
Author(s) -
Posadas Jeremy
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/dial.12226
Subject(s) - complicity , working class , constructive , new class , sociology , class (philosophy) , scholarship , norm (philosophy) , politics , population , social class , gender studies , political science , law , epistemology , philosophy , demography , process (computing) , computer science , operating system
Contrary to popular perception, the majority of the United States population belongs to the working class, not the middle class (even under different definitions of class). But in the discourses of policy‐making, popular culture, and Christian theological scholarship alike, the working class has almost completely disappeared—which contributes to deifying economic and political inequalities. To counteract this disappearance, class must be established as a constructive theological locus, and justice for the working class (qua working class) established as both ethical norm and practical objective.