Overview
- Includes a short Appendix with proposals for reform
- Provides an extension of arguments originally put forward by the author in his classic text, The Upper Classes
- Develops a theoretical approach to social stratification, applying it to the development of the British honours system
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book develops a theoretical approach to social stratification and applies it to the development of the official system of state honours in Britain. It examines both class and status, and sets out an innovative framework for understanding social status – an important but often ignored and misunderstood dimension of social stratification. It is shown that a system of peerages, knighthoods, and other state-based royal honours emerged from feudal patterns of political rule and became an unplanned framework of social integration in the UK that has, since the nineteenth century, decayed and been challenged by alternative criteria of status.
The book explores the class basis of the rise and decay of royal honours and includes a review of contemporary attempts to reconstruct and renew a system of social honour that reflects contemporary relations of power and class in Britain.
It will be of interest to scholars and students of class, social inequality and British social structure.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
John Scott is the author and editor of over 40 books, and has published widely on social stratification, social theory, and research methods. He has worked at the University of Strathclyde, Leicester University, Essex University, and Plymouth University, UK. He is a member of the Council of the British Academy, the Council of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a member of the Board of Governors of Plymouth Marjon University. He received the lifetime achievement award of the British Sociological Association in 2023 and was appointed as a Commander of the British Empire for services to social science in 2013.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Class and Social Honour
Book Subtitle: Lords, Knights, and Companions
Authors: John Scott
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45948-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45947-4Published: 28 February 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45950-4Due: 15 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-45948-1Published: 27 February 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 208
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology of Culture, Sociological Theory