SOCIAL SCIENCE VERSUS SOCIAL CLASS CATEGORY

This article seeks to establish continuity between the beginning of the Marxist theory of capitalist society in European nineteenth century to the post-Marxism of contemporary capitalist society, having as theme the category of social class in sociological thought within his long career in the social historical development of human and social sciences, in general and sociology, in particular. It also presents the analysis of social class in the investigation of economic inequality raised by the analytical Marxism and the contributions of Eric Olin Wright, one of its leading representatives, with the idea of contradictory positions on class relations and the proposal the concept of class structure at the micro level of analysis for empirical research.