Rethinking class : culture, identities and lifestyles
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Rethinking class : culture, identities and lifestyles
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Other editors: Mike Savage, John Scott and Rosemary Crompton
Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-220) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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.
Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Tables.- Notes on Contributors.- The Cultural Turn, Sociology and Class Analysis
- F.Devine and M.Savage.- Social Stratification and Social Inequality: Models of Intersectionality and Identity
- F.Anthias.- The Re-branding of Class: Propertising Culture
- B.Skeggs.- Class and Culture in Germany
- M. Vester.- Local Habitus and Working-class Culture
- M.Savage, B.Longhurst and G.Bagnall.- Memory Magic: How a Working-class Neighbourhood became an Imagined Community and Class Started to Matter When it Lost its Base
- T.Blokland.- Middle-class Identities in the United States
- F.Devine.- Social Change and Social Identities: Postmodernity, Reflexive Modernisation and the Transformation of Social Identities in Australia
- T.Phillips and M.Western.- Class Analysis: Beyond the Cultural Turn
- R.Crompton and J.Scott.- Bibliography.- Index.
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