ISBN:
9780230214545
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.5
Keywords:
Social stratification-Case studies..
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Social classes-Case studies..
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Culture..
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Social classes..
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Social stratification
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
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