ABSTRACT
This chapter follows three threads to present the new insights offered by the sociology of social class in France: Its reassertion of the persistence of a class structure, notwithstanding the changes within it; the importance of taking into account territorial differences and scales of analysis as well as movement flows and mobility; the need to articulate social class relations with gender and ethno-racial relations in order to grasp the internal divisions and the processes of reproduction. We emphasise, across these three threads, the centrality of public institutions and the State in enhancing or attenuating class and power relations.
