Rethinking Class
Cultures, Identities and Lifestyles
1st Edition
Published on 15. September 2017
229 pages
978-0-230-21454-5 (ISBN)
Description
Edited by leading British sociologists of stratification, this book advances contemporary debates in class analysis. It draws on current theoretical debates in sociology and considers the implications of the cultural turn for the study of class. It brings together the very latest empirical work on contemporary topics such as culture, identities and lifestyles undertaken by researchers from Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia. It will be required reading for those committed to pushing the boundaries of class and stratification in new and exciting directions around the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-0-230-21454-5 (9780230214545)
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 The Cultural Turn, Sociology and Class Analysis
- Consciousness and imagery
- Habitus and identity
- The contributions
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 2 Social Stratification and Social Inequality: Models of Intersectionality and Identity
- Terminological issues in the study of inequality
- What is a social division?
- Boundaries and hierarchies
- The reductionist model: explaining ethnicity and class
- The intersectionality model
- Identity model
- Displacing the identity problematic: narratives of location
- Concluding remarks: implications for the study of social inequality
- 3 The Re-Branding of Class: Propertising Culture Beverley Skeggs
- Rhetoric and re-presentations
- Academic responses
- So what are the consequences of this?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 4 Class and Culture in Germany
- Research questions and methodology
- Conclusions
- Notes
- 5 Local Habitus and Working-Class Culture
- The working class in British society
- Research methods
- Conclusions
- Notes
- 6 Memory Magic: How a Working-Class Neighbourhood Became an Imagined Community and Class Started to Matter when it Lost its Base
- Introduction
- Telling stories: some preliminary notes
- Tales of community: how "we" were all "the same"
- Tales of distinction: how "we" compared to "them"
- Change: the end of work and community as "we" knew it
- Tales of marking borders: how class matters versus ethnicity
- Practice of exclusion: how a working-class neighbourhood became an imagined community
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 7 Middle-Class Identities in the United States Fiona Devine
- Class consciousness and class identities
- Researching the American and British middle classes
- Originating from the middle classes
- Being other than middle class
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 8 Social Change and Social Identity: Postmodernity, Reflexive Modernisation and the Transformation of Social Identities in Australia
- Theories of post- and reflexive modernity
- Towards a theory of identity
- Research methods and analytic strategy
- Changing patterns of social identification
- Discussion and conclusions
- Notes
- 9 Class Analysis: Beyond the Cultural Turn Rosemary Crompton and John Scott
- Methodological contrasts in class analysis
- Taking culture (too) seriously
- The contributions to this book
- The strange problem of the baby and the bathwater
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
