ISBN:
9780230240568
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (256 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Class and Contemporary British Culture
DDC:
305.50941
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Soziale Klasse
;
Kultursoziologie
;
Massenmedien
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
How does culture produce stories about class and class difference? What do these stories tell us about contemporary models of success, failure, struggle and aspiration? Drawing on contemporary examples, Biressi and Nunn demonstrate why social class still matters in Britain and considers the costs and investments at stake for all involved.
Abstract:
How does culture produce stories about class and class difference? What do these stories tell us about contemporary models of success, failure, struggle and aspiration? Drawing on contemporary examples, Biressi and Nunn demonstrate why social class still matters in Britain and considers the costs and investments at stake for all involved
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Beginning the Work of Class and Culture; 2 Essex: Class, Aspiration and Social Mobility; 3 The Revolting Underclass: 'You Know Them When You See Them'; 4 Top of the Class: Education, Capital and Choice; 5 The Ones Who Got Away: Celebrity Life Stories of Upward Social Mobility; 6 The Upper Classes: Visibility, Adaptability and Change; 7 'Are You Thinking What We're Thinking?': Class, Immigration and Belonging; 8 Austerity Britain: Back to the Future; Afterword: 'We Are All in This Together'; Notes; References; Author Index
Description / Table of Contents:
Subject Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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